What In Fact is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the current web hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insubstantial business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which furnishes an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering strictly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace offer one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an average bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web pages. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k web hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably met all website hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage No.1: A moronic domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located 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. See for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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 becoming perplexed? We doubtlessly are!

Weakness Number Two: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder structure on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly enhance their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Drawback Number 3: A total absence of domain name administration options

Do we have to point out the total lack of a modern domain administration tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a mammoth weakness. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Problem No.4: Many login places (minimum two, max three)

How about the demand for an additional login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration GUI? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting firm. Now and then, based on the billing tool (particularly meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting vendor is utilizing, the enthusiastic users can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing/domain name administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Downside Number 5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel departments to become acquainted with... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better grasp them swiftly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, 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...