What is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which supplies a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet providing the very same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace offer literally the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/Control Panel choice. So, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only an average bloke who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names around the world will give you the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the present web hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps satisfied most hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect No.1: A laughable domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new 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 delete on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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 domain names, please. Observe for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder system 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)

Are you becoming perplexed? We absolutely are!

Shortcoming No.2: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The email folder structure on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly strengthen their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too seriously.

Drawback Number Three: A sheer absence of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we need to point out the utter absence of a contemporary domain name management platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a considerable predicament. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Inconvenience Number Four: Many user login places (min two, max 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to make use of the billing, domain and tech support management system? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting distributor. Occasionally, based on the invoicing tool (especially invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting corporation is using, the avid clients can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain name administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Predicament No.5: 120+ website hosting Control Panel menus to get familiar with... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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