What Precisely is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which generates an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing absolutely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting market provide the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

200k "hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are only a normal bloke who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 web hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names all over the world will offer you the very same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on today's web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly met most hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number 1: A foolish domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are set up 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder system 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 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 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 name)

Are you getting nonplussed? We certainly are!

Weak Side Number 2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The mail folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly increase their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too irretrievably.

Shortcoming No.3: An entire lack of domain name administration interfaces

Do we need to bring up the thorough absence of a modern domain administration platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" interface at all. That's a great shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Problem Number Four: Many login places (min 2, max three)

What about the demand for an additional login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration software? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting service provider. Sometimes, depending on the billing system (especially built for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting provider is using, the keen clients can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP departments to become acquainted with... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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