What Does cPanel Website Hosting Mean?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on the current web hosting market are supplied by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized business segment, which generates a great quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying literally the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace provide absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply one 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, remark that one...

200,000 "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a normal chap who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 website hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names across the world will offer you literally the same cPanel CP and platform, labeled differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly answered most website hosting market demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number One: A stupid domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to delete fully 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 domain names are quite simple to delete on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder system 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 name)

Are you growing nonplussed? We positively are!

Disadvantage No.2: The very same email folder configuration

The email folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too seriously.

Weak Side Number Three: An utter deficiency of domain name administration interfaces

Do we need to bring up the entire lack of a contemporary domain name administration user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois details, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" section at all. That's an immense inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

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

How about the necessity for an additional login to use the billing, domain name and technical support management system? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting firm. At times, depending on the billing transaction system (especially meant for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is using, the enthusiastic customers can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP menus to learn... fast

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ sections inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting vendors:

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