What Exactly is cPanel Hosting?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on today's website hosting marketplace are generated by a very insignificant business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying absolutely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole hosting market supply one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200k "web hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

Business Cloud
Unlimited storage
Unlimited bandwidth
5 websites hosted
30-Day Free Trial
$8.75 / month
Corporate Cloud
Unlimited storage
Unlimited bandwidth
Unlimited websites hosted
30-Day Free Trial
$17.00 / month
 

The web hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a normal person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200,000 hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brands in the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably fulfilled all web hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number 1: A stupid domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent 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 remove on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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. Determine for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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 getting confused? We definitely are!

Negative Sign No.2: The very same e-mail folder setup

The email folder configuration on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly increase their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too gravely.

Shortcoming Number 3: A complete deficiency of domain management tools

Do we have to refer to the utter lack of a modern domain manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" interface at all. That's a vast drawback. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Inconvenience No.4: Many user login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to access the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management section? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting supplier. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing system (particularly conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the keen users can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel menus to learn... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting service providers:

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