Explanation of cPanel Website Hosting

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on today's website hosting market are supplied by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering exactly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an ordinary person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brand names worldwide will offer you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the current web hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

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

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably fulfilled all website hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side Number 1: A foolish domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how marvelous 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 name)
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)
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 puzzled? We undoubtedly are!

Downside No.2: The very same electronic mail folder system

The mail folder structure on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly increase their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too badly.

Negative Point Number Three: A complete shortage of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we have to refer to the absolute absence of a modern domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" section at all. That's a vast inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Predicament Number Four: Numerous user login locations (minimum two, max three)

How about the demand for an extra login to access the billing, domain name and tech support administration software solution? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting provider. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (particularly tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is availing of, the devoted clients can end up with two extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management user interface; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel areas to get familiar with... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them rapidly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting suppliers:

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...