What Precisely is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offerings on the current website hosting market are supplied by a quite unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which supplies a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing exactly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the hosting offers on the whole hosting market supply exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a regular bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brand names all over the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the present web hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

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

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably satisfied most website hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number One: A dumb domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed 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 fabulous cPanel's domain name 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)

Are you growing puzzled? We unquestionably are!

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

The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too harshly.

Weak Side Number 3: An absolute deficiency of domain name management user interfaces

Do we have to mention the thorough lack of a contemporary domain name management platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a colossal problem. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Negative Aspect No.4: Many login locations (minimum 2, max three)

How about the demand for an extra login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and tech support management software platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting distributor. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction system (especially built for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting distributor is availing of, the earnest users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name management software platform; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Disadvantage No.5: More than 120 Control Panel areas to become familiar with... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better pick them up promptly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting suppliers:

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