What In Fact is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on the present web hosting marketplace are generated by a very insignificant business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which furnishes a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering strictly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200k "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting brand names. Assume you are merely a normal guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k website hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brand names across the world will offer you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present website hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps answered all web hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect No.1: A moronic domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, because they all are located 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 name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how marvelous 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)
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)
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 confused? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly strengthen their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too seriously.

Drawback Number 3: An entire absence of domain name administration tools

Do we have to cite the absolute shortage of a contemporary domain name administration tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois details, secure the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a great disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

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

What about the demand for another login to avail of the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting company. Occasionally, based on the billing transaction system (principally intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting vendor is availing of, the avid customers can wind up with two additional logins (1: the billing/domain name management menu; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Problem Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty CP menus to memorize... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a fine idea to learn each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting firms:

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