What is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present-day web hosting market are furnished by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small business segment, which furnishes an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing exactly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market supply the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web pages. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200,000 website hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brands around the world will offer you literally the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably satisfied all web hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem No.1: A ludicrous domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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 growing confused? We categorically are!

Predicament No.2: The same email folder setup

The email folder arrangement on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly fortify their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too harshly.

Negative Point No.3: A thorough absence of domain manipulation menus

Do we need to bring up the utter shortage of a contemporary domain management interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a colossal shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Weak Side Number Four: Numerous user login places (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the demand for an extra login to access the billing, domain name and tech support management interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting vendor. At times, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (particularly conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the zealous users can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain management software platform; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP menus to get acquainted with... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting corporations:

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