What is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the present-day website hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small business niche, which supplies a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace supply exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

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

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a normal person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 website hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably met all web hosting market demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number 1: A dumb domain folder structure

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call 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 quite simple to remove on the web hosting server, because 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 situated 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. Check for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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 getting puzzled? We doubtlessly are!

Disadvantage Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder structure

The mail folder configuration on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too severely.

Disadvantage Number Three: A complete lack of domain name manipulation tools

Do we have to mention the thorough shortage of a contemporary domain management tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a huge disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Disadvantage Number 4: Many user login places (min two, max three)

What about the necessity for another login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and tech support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting service provider. Occasionally, depending on the billing platform (principally invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting distributor is making use of, the ardent customers can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain management platform; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Drawback No.5: 120+ website hosting Control Panel sections to get to know... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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