What is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting market are furnished by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which supplies an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering literally the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the entire hosting market furnish the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

200,000 "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply an average guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different hosting brand names in the world will offer you the very same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present-day web hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably covered all website hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number One: A stupid domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, 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, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 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 disorientated? We positively are!

Weak Side No.2: The same e-mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder structure on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly enhance their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too seriously.

Problem No.3: A total lack of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we need to refer to the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" tool at all. That's an immense predicament. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Numerous login places (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the necessity for another login to access the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration menu? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting firm. Now and then, based on the invoicing platform (especially created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the earnest users can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration section; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Sign Number Five: More than 120 website hosting CP departments to get familiar with... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting providers:

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...