What Actually is cPanel Hosting?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the present website hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insignificant business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small business segment, which supplies a huge quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing absolutely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace furnish the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200,000 "web hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an average person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web sites. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k website hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands in the world will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly met all website hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number 1: A laughable domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to 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 very easy to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular 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 attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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 becoming puzzled? We doubtlessly are!

Disadvantage Number Two: The very same mail folder system

The mail folder configuration on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly fortify their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too severely.

Negative Aspect Number Three: A total absence of domain name manipulation sections

Do we have to cite the complete shortage of a modern domain name management user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois information, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" tool at all. That's a big inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Disadvantage No.4: Multiple login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for another login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration system? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting firm. At times, based on the invoicing system (principally tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the ardent customers can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: 120+ website hosting Control Panel sections to get acquainted with... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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