What Exactly is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on today's web hosting market are provided by a very insignificant business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which generates an enormous number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying precisely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the entire website hosting market supply strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a normal bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names around the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on today's web hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps fulfilled all website hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number 1: A laughable domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
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)
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 confused? We unquestionably are!

Downside No.2: The very same e-mail folder structure

The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly fortify their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to botch things up too irreparably.

Negative Side No.3: A sheer deficiency of domain name manipulation sections

Do we need to mention the utter absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a big problem. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Weakness Number Four: Many login places (min two, max three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to access the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration GUI? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting company. Sometimes, based on the invoice transaction system (particularly built for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the zealous users can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration tool; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: 120+ web hosting Control Panel areas to become acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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