cPanel Website Hosting Explanation

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel website hosting offers on the present web hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which supplies a great number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing literally the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace supply strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only a normal 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 websites. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 web hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brand names across the world will offer you literally the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on today's hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps covered all web hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number One: A foolish domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 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)

Are you growing disorientated? We positively are!

Negative Point Number 2: The very same email folder system

The mail folder configuration on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly strengthen their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too badly.

Negative Side No.3: An utter absence of domain name manipulation menus

Do we have to mention the thorough shortage of a contemporary domain name administration interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" interface at all. That's a considerable weakness. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Weakness Number 4: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to make use of the billing, domain name and technical support management menu? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting corporation. Sometimes, based on the invoice transaction tool (particularly created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting service provider is availing of, the enthusiastic clients can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain name administration menu; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Point Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty Control Panel areas to memorize... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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