What Actually is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the current hosting market are furnished by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes a huge number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing strictly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace furnish precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200k "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an ordinary chap who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 web hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brands across the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the contemporary website hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

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

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

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

Disadvantage Number 1: A foolish domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
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)

Are you becoming nonplussed? We unquestionably are!

Drawback No.2: The same electronic mail folder system

The mail folder structure on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly enhance their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too severely.

Shortcoming Number 3: A thorough lack of domain name manipulation GUIs

Do we have to bring up the sheer shortage of a modern domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a mammoth downside. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Weak Point Number 4: Numerous login locations (minimum two, max 3)

What about the need for an extra login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting distributor. At times, on the basis of the billing transaction system (particularly designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting distributor is availing of, the eager customers can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel areas to get to know... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the CP. It's a superb idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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