What is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting market are supplied by a quite inconsiderable business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which generates a vast amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering the very same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole hosting market supply the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only a regular person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brands in the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present web hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly covered most hosting market prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side Number 1: An idiotic domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain name)

Are you growing bewildered? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder system

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly fortify their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too gravely.

Inconvenience Number Three: An utter deficiency of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we need to mention the entire deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a great disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Weak Point Number Four: Numerous login locations (minimum two, max three)

What about the necessity for another login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management GUI? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting company. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (especially tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting service provider is utilizing, the zealous customers can end up with two extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel areas to become acquainted with... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting vendors:

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...