What is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on the present-day website hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which provides an immense quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing strictly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace furnish absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200k "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are merely a regular guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can select? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 website hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names all over the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present-day website hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 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 fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably satisfied most web hosting business requirements. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point Number 1: A ludicrous domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra careful not to delete completely 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 name)
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 name)

Are you getting confused? We certainly are!

Disadvantage No.2: The same e-mail folder structure

The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Shortcoming Number 3: A total shortage of domain name administration options

Do we have to refer to the utter lack of a modern domain management GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a mammoth problem. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Weakness Number Four: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, max three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the billing transaction, domain and tech support management software? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting firm. Now and then, depending on the invoicing system (principally intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting firm is making use of, the enthusiastic clients can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration software platform; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel areas to become familiar with... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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