Explanation of cPanel Website Hosting

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present website hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which provides a great quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering precisely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market supply strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/Control Panel choice. Thus, 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%, mind that one...

200k "web hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an ordinary fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands all over the world will give you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present website hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably answered most web hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous 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 erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 becoming nonplussed? We surely are!

Shortcoming No.2: The very same mail folder structure

The e-mail folder structure on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly enhance their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too severely.

Negative Sign Number 3: A complete shortage of domain administration sections

Do we have to refer to the absolute absence of a contemporary domain manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a huge inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Weak Side Number Four: Many user login locations (min two, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for another login to make use of the invoicing, domain name and technical support management software? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting vendor. At times, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (especially built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the earnest customers can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Problem Number 5: 120+ web hosting CP sections to get acquainted with... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a great idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting companies:

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