What Exactly is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the present-day web hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small business segment, which supplies a great number of different web hosting brands, yet offering the very same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace offer one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a normal chap who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can select? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k website hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names across the world will give you literally the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the contemporary hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps satisfied all web hosting industry demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side No.1: A stupid domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain 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)
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 name)

Are you getting perplexed? We absolutely are!

Negative Side Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too seriously.

Weak Point Number Three: A complete shortage of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we have to bring up the complete shortage of a contemporary domain name administration user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a gigantic inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Inconvenience Number Four: Many login places (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the demand for another login to access the billing, domain and tech support administration software solution? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting corporation. Now and then, on the basis of the billing platform (especially meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting company is using, the earnest clients can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing/domain name management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: 120+ web hosting CP areas to learn... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them swiftly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting distributors:

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