What is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offers on today's hosting marketplace are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes a big amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing the very same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace offer the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200,000 "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an ordinary fellow who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names worldwide will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on today's hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps answered most website hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number 1: A moronic domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very cautious 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). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
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 perplexed? We positively are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The same mail folder setup

The e-mail folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly strengthen their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too seriously.

Negative Side Number Three: A complete deficiency of domain management GUIs

Do we need to refer to the total lack of a contemporary domain management interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's an enormous drawback. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Weakness Number Four: Multiple login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the need for an extra login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration user interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting firm. Occasionally, depending on the billing tool (especially built for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting vendor is utilizing, the avid customers can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to learn... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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