Explanation of cPanel Website Hosting

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel website hosting offers on the present hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which provides a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting market offer exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/hosting CP option. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200,000 "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a regular guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting option you can select? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k web hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names across the world will offer you the very same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the present-day website hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps fulfilled most web hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience No.1: A dumb domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder structure 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 name)
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 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)

Are you becoming bewildered? We surely are!

Inconvenience Number Two: The very same email folder structure

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too irreparably.

Downside Number Three: A thorough lack of domain administration menus

Do we have to refer to the sheer absence of a modern domain name management user interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois details, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" section at all. That's a major downside. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Negative Sign No.4: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the need for an additional login to access the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting firm. Occasionally, based on the invoicing tool (principally developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting distributor is using, the devoted customers can end up with two additional logins (1: the billing/domain name management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel sections to get acquainted with... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better pick them up promptly... That's excessively 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? Note that one too...