What is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting market are furnished by a very insignificant marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying precisely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole hosting market furnish exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are only an average chap who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names in the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the present web hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps satisfied most web hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming Number One: A dumb domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
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 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 confused? We undoubtedly are!

Problem No.2: The very same electronic mail folder setup

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Problem Number Three: A total absence of domain administration menus

Do we have to cite the sheer absence of a contemporary domain management interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a gigantic problem. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Side Number Four: Many login locations (min two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to make use of the invoicing, domain name and technical support management interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting provider. Now and then, based on the billing transaction tool (especially invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting provider is using, the eager customers can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain administration software; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: More than 120 hosting CP departments to get familiar with... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting companies:

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