cPanel Website Hosting Explanation

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the current web hosting market are provided by a quite insubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which provides a vast amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing one and the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market provide the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a normal person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k website hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands in the world will offer you the very same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the current website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably covered all hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number One: A moronic domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder system 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 name)
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 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 disorientated? We clearly are!

Weak Point No.2: The same electronic mail folder setup

The e-mail folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly enhance their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too badly.

Shortcoming Number 3: An absolute deficiency of domain administration interfaces

Do we need to mention the complete absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a big drawback. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Side No.4: Numerous user login places (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an extra login to use the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting supplier. At times, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (principally tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is availing of, the devoted users can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management tool; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: More than 120 web hosting CP menus to become familiar with... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting service providers:

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