What Precisely is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the present website hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which generates a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing absolutely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting market provide one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200k "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only a normal fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 website hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names in the world will give you literally the same cPanel CP and platform, branded differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the current website hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly fulfilled most website hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point Number One: A moronic domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, 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 hosting server, because they all are situated 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how amazing 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 name)
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 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)

Are you getting disorientated? We unquestionably are!

Inconvenience No.2: The same mail folder structure

The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly fortify their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too seriously.

Weakness Number Three: An entire absence of domain manipulation tools

Do we have to mention the complete absence of a contemporary domain manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a huge predicament. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Numerous login places (min 2, max 3)

How about the need for another login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management tool? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting firm. At times, based on the invoicing system (principally intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting company is utilizing, the enthusiastic clients can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration system; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel sections to get acquainted with... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting distributors:

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