Explanation of cPanel Web Hosting

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the current hosting marketplace are furnished by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which generates a great quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying strictly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market provide one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an ordinary guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and online portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brands in the world will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the current website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably satisfied most website hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming Number 1: A foolish domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 name)

Are you getting baffled? We clearly are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The same mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too severely.

Downside No.3: An utter absence of domain administration GUIs

Do we need to bring up the complete absence of a contemporary domain name management menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" section at all. That's a great predicament. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Weak Point Number Four: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the demand for an extra login to make use of the billing, domain and tech support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting corporation. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing system (principally invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the avid clients can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management software; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP sections to get familiar with... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a superb idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...