What Precisely is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting market are furnished by a very insubstantial business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which furnishes a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing absolutely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the whole website hosting market provide exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200k "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The website hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a normal chap who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names around the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the current website hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably fulfilled most web hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

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

Are you getting perplexed? We unquestionably are!

Inconvenience Number Two: The very same e-mail folder structure

The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Weakness Number Three: A sheer shortage of domain name management options

Do we need to cite the absolute lack of a modern domain manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a colossal drawback. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Predicament Number 4: Numerous login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management user interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting firm. At times, based on the billing platform (principally intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting company is utilizing, the keen customers can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain management software platform; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP departments to get acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting companies:

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