Explanation of cPanel Web Hosting

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the current web hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which furnishes a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying literally the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole hosting market provide one and the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an ordinary chap who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 website hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names around the world will give you literally the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present website hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps satisfied most web hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number 1: A moronic domain folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous 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 delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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 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 name)

Are you growing perplexed? We surely are!

Negative Point Number 2: The same electronic mail folder structure

The mail folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly strengthen their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too gravely.

Inconvenience No.3: A total lack of domain name management menus

Do we have to mention the complete deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a gigantic downside. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Many login places (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the necessity for another login to access the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management user interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting supplier. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction platform (principally created for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting firm is using, the earnest users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the billing/domain management section; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number 5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel sections to become familiar with... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting service providers:

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