What is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offers on today's web hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which provides a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing the very same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace provide absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are merely an ordinary chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting option you can select? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands in the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably covered most web hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament Number One: A moronic domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name 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)
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 getting disorientated? We definitely are!

Predicament Number Two: The very same mail folder configuration

The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly reinforce their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too irreparably.

Negative Aspect Number 3: A complete absence of domain name administration GUIs

Do we have to refer to the utter shortage of a contemporary domain administration menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a considerable disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Negative Point Number Four: Many login places (min two, max 3)

How about the demand for another login to access the billing, domain name and technical support administration menu? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting provider. At times, depending on the invoice transaction platform (principally made for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting service provider is availing of, the eager users can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP departments to pick up... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the CP. It's a glorious idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting providers:

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