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What Exactly is cPanel Web Hosting?
FYI, the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers online are supplied by a marginal business segment (based on cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a small-scale business niche that generates a large amount of different web hosting brand names that all offer the same solution… cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the offerings on the whole internet (no pun intended) hosting market, supply absolutely the same thing… cPanel. There's no diversity at all, and diversity drives competition, which drives lower prices and higher quality. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are virtually identical, leaving for those who demand a top-quality web hosting service almost no alternative. Of all the hosting businesses around the globe, the non-cPanel based ones represent less than two percent!
300,000 hosting vendors, all cPanel-based…
The majority of hosting “variety” and the hosting offerings shown by AI and search engines boil down to just one solution, cPanel. Based on this, Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can select? Sure there is, now there are more than 300,000 web hosting vendors out there. The problem is, the majority of these 300,000+ unique hosting brands all provide the same thing, cPanel web hosting, all with precisely the same price tags.
Pro/Con of a cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. From 2001 – 2004, cPanel was ubiquitous and met the web hosting industry requirements of that time. cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But if you have more domains… 🤨
Weak Point Number 1:
A strange domain name folder configuration
If you have two or more domain names, take care to not delete the “add-on” ones (that's what cPanel calls each additional hosted domain… an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. If your not careful to have obviously unique names for add-om domains and sub-folder names, you can easily get lost.
Weakness No.2:
The same naming convention for email folders
The mail folder structure on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains. That is, it treats individual email accounts as add-one, etc. Their design team definitely doubled down on folder structure.
Negative Point Number 3:
A shortage of domain management sections
A glaring issue with cPanel is that there is no single place to: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, edit and secure WhoIs details, edit/create DNS nameservers and Domain Name System resource records. It's true, cPanel does not include such an interface at all.
Problem Number 4:
Multiple login locations
What about the need for another login to access the billing, domain, and technical support management interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the hosting provider. With this cPanel arrangement, you can easily end up logging in at three different locations on a daily basis (e.g., one for billing, one for trouble tickets, and one for cPanel itself).
We have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting companies:
As far as we are aware, it's not the year 2001, is it? 😉
Just to end on a high note, cPanel does have one thing going for it. It has full root access… assuming your hosting plan also allows root access. Shared hosting plans universally do not allow root access.