Explanation of cPanel Website Hosting

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offerings on today's hosting market are generated by a quite insignificant business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which supplies a big number of different web hosting brands, yet providing literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market furnish exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...

200k "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a regular bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200k web hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands in the world will give you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

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

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably satisfied most hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament Number 1: A laughable domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how great 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)
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 becoming confused? We definitely are!

Drawback Number Two: The very same e-mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly enhance their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too irreparably.

Weakness Number Three: An utter deficiency of domain name manipulation options

Do we need to point out the entire absence of a modern domain management platform - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" section at all. That's a considerable drawback. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Predicament Number 4: Numerous user login places (min two, maximum three)

What about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting firm. Sometimes, based on the invoicing transaction tool (especially designed for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting company is availing of, the eager clients can end up with two additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number 5: 120+ website hosting Control Panel sections to get familiar with... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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