What Precisely is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel website hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are generated by a very unsubstantial business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which provides a great quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering precisely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace supply the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200k "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only a regular fellow who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k web hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names in the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present-day web hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps covered all website hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number One: A moronic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain 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)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain)
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 growing puzzled? We definitely are!

Weakness Number Two: The same e-mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly increase their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too irretrievably.

Inconvenience Number 3: An utter shortage of domain name administration sections

Do we have to mention the absolute deficiency of a modern domain manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a considerable inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...

Predicament Number 4: Numerous user login locations (min 2, max three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to use the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management software solution? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting company. At times, depending on the invoicing transaction system (principally invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting service provider is availing of, the devoted users can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel menus to memorize... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting corporations:

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