What In Fact is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the present web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insignificant marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which supplies a great amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting market provide precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely one single 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 two percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only a regular chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 website hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands all over the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on today's web hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably fulfilled most web hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are placed 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder setup is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 name)

Are you becoming bewildered? We undeniably are!

Negative Point No.2: The same e-mail folder setup

The mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly increase their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too severely.

Negative Sign No.3: An utter deficiency of domain manipulation GUIs

Do we have to cite the sheer shortage of a modern domain manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois info, secure the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a gigantic predicament. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Negative Side No.4: Numerous login places (minimum two, max 3)

What about the need for an additional login to use the billing, domain and technical support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting service provider. Occasionally, depending on the billing transaction platform (principally made for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting vendor is using, the ardent customers can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name administration GUI; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Downside No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel areas to learn... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get to know them quickly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting companies:

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