What is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting market are generated by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies an enormous number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying literally the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting market supply one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

200k "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are only an average bloke who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200,000 website hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names all over the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on today's web hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably fulfilled most website hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming Number 1: A foolish domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the web server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous 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 domain names, please. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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 name)
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 puzzled? We undeniably are!

Weak Side No.2: The very same email folder arrangement

The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too gravely.

Weak Point No.3: A thorough lack of domain name manipulation interfaces

Do we need to point out the absolute lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois info, protect the Whois info, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a big inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Drawback Number Four: Numerous user login places (min two, max three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting vendor. Now and then, depending on the billing tool (principally created for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting vendor is using, the zealous users can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management menu; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel sections to become acquainted with... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them fast... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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