What is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on today's website hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which generates an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing one and the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire hosting marketplace furnish the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a regular guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names around the world will give you strictly the same cPanel CP and platform, branded differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the present website hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably answered most website hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number 1: A dumb domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely careful not to delete 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). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
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 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 getting disorientated? We definitely are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder structure

The email folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly enhance their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too harshly.

Weakness Number Three: An utter lack of domain name management sections

Do we have to refer to the sheer deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a gigantic problem. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Weakness Number 4: Many user login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the need for an extra login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration GUI? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting supplier. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing transaction system (principally developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the enthusiastic clients can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing/domain administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel menus to become familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting distributors:

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