What Does cPanel Web Hosting Represent?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offers on the present-day website hosting market are provided by a quite insubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which provides a great number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering the very same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a normal chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 website hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands all over the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the current hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably answered most web hosting market requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number One: An imbecilic domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra watchful not to erase fully 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder setup 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)
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 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 nonplussed? We undoubtedly are!

Predicament No.2: The very same email folder arrangement

The mail folder structure on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly fortify their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too irreparably.

Predicament Number 3: A total absence of domain name administration GUIs

Do we have to refer to the thorough lack of a modern domain management tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" section at all. That's a colossal drawback. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Point No.4: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, max three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting company. Now and then, on the basis of the billing platform (especially devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting corporation is availing of, the devoted users can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing/domain name administration menu; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: 120+ website hosting CP menus to get familiar with... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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