What is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the present web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing one and the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace provide precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a regular guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site making processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 web hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brands in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present web hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably answered most website hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number 1: A dumb domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular 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 delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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 nonplussed? We clearly are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly strengthen their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too irreparably.

Negative Side No.3: A thorough shortage of domain administration menus

Do we have to mention the entire lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's an immense downside. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Weakness Number Four: Many login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting provider. Now and then, based on the billing transaction tool (especially designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the devoted clients can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain management software; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP sections to become familiar with... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting companies:

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