What Precisely is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which supplies a big amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing the very same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the entire hosting marketplace furnish precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200k "hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a normal bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200k web hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique hosting brands around the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the present-day web hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a great strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably met all web hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number One: A laughable domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra attentive not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you becoming confused? We positively are!

Weakness No.2: The same e-mail folder structure

The email folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too irreparably.

Shortcoming Number Three: An utter deficiency of domain name administration menus

Do we need to bring up the total deficiency of a contemporary domain management interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a mammoth predicament. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

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

How about the necessity for another login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting company. Sometimes, based on the billing transaction tool (principally built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting supplier is making use of, the eager customers can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP areas to get acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a fine idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...