Explanation of cPanel Hosting

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting market are provided by a very insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which generates a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying absolutely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/CP choice. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200k "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are only a normal chap who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can select? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brands in the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on today's website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably fulfilled all website hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number 1: A laughable domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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 name)

Are you becoming baffled? We surely are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The same mail folder setup

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly strengthen their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too severely.

Inconvenience No.3: A thorough deficiency of domain administration GUIs

Do we need to cite the complete shortage of a modern domain name administration menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois information, secure the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a gigantic disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Side No.4: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, max three)

What about the demand for an additional login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting firm. Now and then, based on the billing transaction platform (particularly meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting company is using, the keen clients can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Weak Side No.5: More than 120 web hosting CP areas to get familiar with... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ sections inside the CP. It's an excellent idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting vendors:

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