What is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the present-day website hosting market are generated by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which provides a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering one and the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting market offer absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a normal chap who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brand names around the world will give you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

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

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly fulfilled most web hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point No.1: A dumb domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new 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 hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder structure 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 name)
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)
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 puzzled? We positively are!

Weak Side No.2: The very same email folder system

The electronic mail folder structure on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly increase their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too harshly.

Weak Side No.3: An absolute absence of domain name administration GUIs

Do we have to mention the utter absence of a modern domain management user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" menu at all. That's a colossal problem. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Downside Number Four: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the need for another login to use the invoicing, domain and technical support administration platform? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting distributor. At times, depending on the billing transaction tool (particularly conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting firm is availing of, the keen clients can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing/domain management software; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Problem Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP menus to learn... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 menus inside the hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting suppliers:

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