What is cPanel Web Hosting?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel Web Hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are generated by a very inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size business niche, which furnishes a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing one and the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole hosting marketplace supply precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...
200k "Web Hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a normal chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k web hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands worldwide will offer you strictly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on today's web hosting market is... Full stop.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple arithmetic shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly met all web hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Downside Number 1: A moronic domain name folder arrangement
If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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 growing nonplussed? We surely are!
Downside No.2: The same email folder configuration
The email folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly increase their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too irreparably.
Problem No.3: An absolute shortage of domain name management options
Do we have to cite the complete shortage of a contemporary domain name management GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" section at all. That's a huge downside. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...
Negative Sign No.4: Numerous login locations (min two, maximum three)
What about the necessity for an extra login to access the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration software platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Web Hosting vendor. At times, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (especially developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting supplier is utilizing, the keen clients can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).
Negative Aspect No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP sections to get acquainted with... rapidly
cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a great idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting distributors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...