What Indeed is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on the current web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which furnishes a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying absolutely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace provide absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200k "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The web hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only a normal chap who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and online portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands all over the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the present web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably satisfied all web hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number One: A laughable domain name folder structure

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

Are you getting bewildered? We undoubtedly are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The very same mail folder structure

The email folder structure on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too severely.

Problem Number 3: An absolute lack of domain manipulation tools

Do we have to bring up the thorough shortage of a modern domain name administration GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's an enormous weakness. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Downside Number Four: Many login locations (min 2, maximum three)

What about the need for an extra login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and technical support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting distributor. Occasionally, depending on the invoice transaction tool (particularly meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is utilizing, the earnest clients can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP areas to get familiar with... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up promptly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting service providers:

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