What Exactly is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the contemporary hosting market are supplied by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which furnishes an immense number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering strictly the same thing: 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 entire website hosting marketplace supply one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

200k "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just a regular person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and websites. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brand names in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the current web hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably satisfied all web hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem No.1: A laughable domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how good cPanel's domain 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)
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 certainly are!

Weakness Number Two: The same mail folder structure

The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too severely.

Negative Point Number 3: An absolute shortage of domain manipulation interfaces

Do we have to cite the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" tool at all. That's a great weakness. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Weak Point Number Four: Many user login locations (min two, maximum three)

What about the need for an extra login to make use of the invoicing, domain and technical support administration menu? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting vendor. Sometimes, based on the invoice transaction system (principally devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting company is using, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management software; 2: the ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Point Number 5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel menus to become acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting suppliers:

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