cPanel Hosting Explanation

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which generates a great quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering literally the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace supply strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are only a normal guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brand names all over the world will give you the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the contemporary web hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably satisfied most website hosting market requirements. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number One: A laughable domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are set up 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 remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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 getting perplexed? We absolutely are!

Weak Side No.2: The same email folder structure

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Predicament Number 3: A sheer absence of domain administration tools

Do we have to mention the total lack of a modern domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois information, protect the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a considerable drawback. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

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

What about the need for an extra login to access the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management software? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting service provider. Sometimes, depending on the billing system (especially made for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting service provider is utilizing, the ardent clients can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management platform; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Predicament Number Five: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel departments to get acquainted with... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better grasp them promptly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting corporations:

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