What is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insignificant marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering strictly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace offer the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary guy who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k website hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names around the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present-day website hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably fulfilled all web hosting market preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra cautious not to remove entirely 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). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the hosting server, because they all are located 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how wonderful 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 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)
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 baffled? We surely are!

Negative Side Number 2: The very same mail folder structure

The email folder structure on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly enhance their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too badly.

Weak Side Number Three: A complete absence of domain management GUIs

Do we have to point out the complete lack of a contemporary domain name administration menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a big drawback. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Drawback Number Four: Numerous login locations (min 2, max 3)

How about the necessity for another login to use the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management system? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting firm. At times, depending on the billing transaction system (principally tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is using, the enthusiastic customers can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management system; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: More than 120 web hosting CP departments to get acquainted with... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better pick them up promptly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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