What Actually is cPanel Hosting?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are generated by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized business segment, which provides a great quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing strictly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole hosting marketplace furnish strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200k "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the current web hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably met all hosting industry prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number 1: A dumb domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra careful not to remove 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder structure 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 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 growing nonplussed? We definitely are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly fortify their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too harshly.

Negative Side Number Three: An entire deficiency of domain name administration options

Do we need to cite the absolute absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois details, secure the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" section at all. That's an immense shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Problem No.4: Numerous login places (min 2, maximum three)

How about the need for another login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and tech support administration software? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting vendor. Now and then, based on the billing transaction platform (principally designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting company is availing of, the keen users can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain name management platform; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number Five: 120+ CP departments to grasp... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the CP. It's a superb idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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