What is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offerings on the current web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small marketing niche, which supplies a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet offering literally the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace furnish literally the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

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

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an average bloke who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brand names around the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably covered all web hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming Number 1: A laughable domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to 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 simple to remove on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular 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 domains, please. Check for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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 becoming confused? We undeniably are!

Negative Sign No.2: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder structure on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Negative Aspect Number Three: A complete lack of domain name administration menus

Do we need to cite the utter absence of a contemporary domain name management platform - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois information, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a colossal inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Negative Sign No.4: Numerous user login places (min 2, max 3)

How about the demand for an extra login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting distributor. At times, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (especially designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting distributor is using, the devoted users can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name management section; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: More than one hundred and twenty CP menus to get familiar with... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the CP. It's an excellent idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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