What Indeed is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present-day website hosting marketplace are supplied by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering one and the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace offer one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting brand names. Assume you are just a regular guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k website hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the contemporary website hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps fulfilled most web hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number One: A stupid domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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)
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 name)

Are you getting perplexed? We absolutely are!

Weak Side Number Two: The same electronic mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly fortify their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too fatally.

Inconvenience Number 3: A total shortage of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we need to mention the absolute shortage of a contemporary domain name management user interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois information, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an immense problem. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Disadvantage No.4: Many user login places (min 2, max 3)

How about the necessity for an additional login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration tool? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting vendor. At times, on the basis of the invoicing platform (particularly devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the eager clients can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration GUI; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Problem Number Five: More than 120 website hosting CP sections to pick up... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the CP. It's a wonderful idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better pick them up briskly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting firms:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...