What Exactly is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offers on today's web hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which provides an immense number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying precisely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace provide the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

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

The website hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are just an average fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and online portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands around the world will give you literally the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present web hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

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

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably fulfilled all web hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number One: An idiotic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely attentive not to delete fully 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 domains are very simple to delete on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed 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. Determine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
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)
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 growing disorientated? We doubtlessly are!

Drawback Number Two: The same electronic mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the email server, hoping not to botch things up too seriously.

Weak Side No.3: An entire deficiency of domain name management user interfaces

Do we need to refer to the total shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois details, secure the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" interface at all. That's an immense inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Numerous login places (min two, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for another login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration section? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting company. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction platform (particularly developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting vendor is using, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: 120+ web hosting CP sections to get to know... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better memorize them swiftly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting firms:

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