Definition of cPanel Web Hosting

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the current web hosting market are generated by a very insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which supplies a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market provide exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200,000 "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a regular guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and online portals. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a huge 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 positive and negative aspects of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps covered all hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number 1: A dumb domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify 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 becoming perplexed? We positively are!

Negative Aspect No.2: The same mail folder structure

The email folder structure on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too badly.

Negative Side No.3: An entire shortage of domain name administration sections

Do we have to refer to the entire lack of a modern domain name manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois details, shield the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's an enormous downside. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Predicament Number 4: Numerous user login places (min 2, max 3)

How about the demand for another login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software solution? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting corporation. Occasionally, based on the billing tool (particularly designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting vendor is using, the earnest customers can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel sections to become familiar with... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting providers:

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