What is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes an enormous quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing one and the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace provide the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200,000 "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a normal person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and online portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different hosting brand names around the world will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on today's web hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps satisfied most web hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament No.1: A dumb domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain 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 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 name)

Are you becoming confused? We undeniably are!

Weak Point Number 2: The very same mail folder structure

The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly enhance their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too severely.

Shortcoming Number Three: An entire deficiency of domain administration menus

Do we have to point out the total lack of a contemporary domain manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a colossal shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Predicament Number 4: Many login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an extra login to access the invoicing, domain and tech support administration software? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting vendor. Now and then, based on the invoice transaction platform (principally invented for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting corporation is making use of, the devoted users can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number 5: 120+ web hosting CP departments to become familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a superb idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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