What is cPanel Hosting?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on the present-day web hosting market are furnished by a very insubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing literally the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace offer one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

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

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a normal bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands around the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present-day web hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably answered most website hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign No.1: A dumb domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very careful not to remove entirely 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 very easy to erase on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 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)

Are you becoming perplexed? We definitely are!

Predicament No.2: The very same email folder system

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly reinforce their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too irretrievably.

Negative Side Number Three: A total deficiency of domain name management GUIs

Do we need to refer to the complete deficiency of a modern domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" section at all. That's an enormous weakness. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Multiple login locations (min 2, max 3)

What about the demand for an additional login to use the invoicing, domain and technical support administration system? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting distributor. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (especially created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting company is using, the avid users can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management GUI; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Predicament Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP sections to get acquainted with... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them fast... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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