What Precisely is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present web hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which generates a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace furnish absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

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

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a normal chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k website hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names around the world will give you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present-day website hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably met all web hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback No.1: A laughable domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the web server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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 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 becoming puzzled? We unquestionably are!

Downside No.2: The same electronic mail folder setup

The e-mail folder configuration on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly enhance their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too seriously.

Weak Side No.3: A thorough lack of domain administration options

Do we need to mention the sheer shortage of a modern domain manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a huge problem. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Shortcoming No.4: Many login places (min two, maximum three)

What about the demand for another login to use the invoicing, domain name and technical support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting corporation. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing tool (particularly made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the keen clients can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing/domain name management software; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number 5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel menus to learn... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up promptly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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