What Precisely is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insignificant business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which furnishes a great number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying absolutely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace offer the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an average chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web pages. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names worldwide will give you literally the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on today's web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps met most web hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the 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 placed 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. Observe for yourself how fabulous 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)
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 baffled? We clearly are!

Negative Point Number Two: The same e-mail folder setup

The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too fatally.

Drawback Number 3: An entire absence of domain manipulation interfaces

Do we need to point out the utter absence of a contemporary domain name management GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" interface at all. That's a considerable inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Shortcoming Number Four: Many login places (minimum two, max 3)

How about the demand for another login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration software platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting distributor. Now and then, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (especially tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting supplier is availing of, the zealous users can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name management tool; 2: the ticket support menu), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty hosting CP menus to become acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a fine idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them fast... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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