What Indeed is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on today's web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insignificant marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which supplies a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering strictly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace offer absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The web hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an average chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands across the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly answered most web hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number 1: A ludicrous domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 name)
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 getting puzzled? We doubtlessly are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The same email folder arrangement

The email folder configuration on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too severely.

Negative Point Number Three: A complete deficiency of domain management options

Do we need to mention the absolute deficiency of a modern domain manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a huge downside. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Side No.4: Multiple login locations (minimum two, max 3)

How about the need for an extra login to use the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration menu? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting supplier. Occasionally, based on the invoicing platform (especially intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the eager clients can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management platform; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel departments to get acquainted with... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them swiftly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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