Explanation of cPanel Hosting

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present-day web hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which supplies a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering one and the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market supply the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200,000 "web hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an average chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site creation procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names worldwide will offer you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the present web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps covered most web hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to erase 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). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed 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. Verify for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder setup is:

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

Are you becoming puzzled? We undeniably are!

Weakness No.2: The same mail folder arrangement

The mail folder structure on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly fortify their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too seriously.

Negative Aspect No.3: An absolute shortage of domain name management options

Do we need to cite the total lack of a modern domain name management menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" menu at all. That's a mammoth inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Weakness Number 4: Numerous login places (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the need for an additional login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and technical support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting firm. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (especially created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the avid customers can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management system; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Problem Number Five: More than 120 website hosting CP departments to get acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better get to know them fast... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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