Explanation of cPanel Website Hosting

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size business niche, which provides a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying exactly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace offer strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The web hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an average fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different hosting brand names worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the present hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably covered most website hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number One: A stupid domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra cautious 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 domain names are very easy to remove on the web server, since they all are located 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 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 domain names, please. Verify for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
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 getting disorientated? We categorically are!

Negative Point No.2: The very same mail folder structure

The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly reinforce their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too seriously.

Shortcoming Number 3: A sheer lack of domain manipulation user interfaces

Do we have to cite the total lack of a modern domain administration user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" section at all. That's a great downside. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Downside Number Four: Numerous user login places (min 2, maximum three)

What about the demand for an additional login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration menu? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting corporation. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing tool (particularly conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the avid customers can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing/domain name administration interface; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: 120+ hosting Control Panel departments to get to know... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them swiftly... That's excessively impertinent 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...