What is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on today's web hosting marketplace are provided by a very insubstantial business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which supplies a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering strictly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market offer exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/CP choice. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an average fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200,000 web hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different hosting brand names across the world will offer you the very same cPanel hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present web hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably answered all website hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point No.1: A dumb domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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 baffled? We absolutely are!

Disadvantage Number Two: The same email folder system

The mail folder configuration on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly strengthen their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too severely.

Drawback Number 3: A complete lack of domain administration user interfaces

Do we have to point out the thorough lack of a modern domain administration GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" section at all. That's a big inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Problem Number Four: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management menu? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting vendor. At times, based on the billing transaction platform (especially invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting distributor is using, the keen users can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain name management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: 120+ web hosting CP menus to become acquainted with... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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