What is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on the present-day website hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insignificant business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates an immense quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering strictly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market furnish one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200,000 "hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an average fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and online portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brands in the world will give you precisely the same cPanel CP and platform, branded in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on today's website hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably answered all website hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming No.1: A moronic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be very cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to 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 very simple to erase on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder system 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 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 becoming confused? We categorically are!

Negative Aspect Number Two: The same email folder setup

The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly enhance their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too gravely.

Negative Side No.3: An entire deficiency of domain management menus

Do we need to point out the absolute absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a considerable downside. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Predicament Number 4: Many user login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the demand for another login to use the invoicing, domain and technical support administration software platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting distributor. At times, depending on the invoicing tool (particularly built for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting supplier is using, the avid customers can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain management software; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP sections to memorize... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting vendors:

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