Explanation of cPanel Website Hosting

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel website hosting offers on today's web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which supplies a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering absolutely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole hosting market supply the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

200,000 "website hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The website hosting "diversity" 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 website hosting brand names. Suppose you are only a normal guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site making processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names worldwide will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps satisfied all web hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament Number 1: A foolish domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how terrific 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)
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 becoming bewildered? We positively are!

Inconvenience No.2: The same e-mail folder structure

The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly reinforce their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too fatally.

Inconvenience No.3: An entire absence of domain name administration interfaces

Do we have to point out the thorough deficiency of a modern domain manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a colossal downside. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Weak Point Number 4: Multiple login places (min two, maximum 3)

How about the need for an additional login to make use of the invoicing, domain and technical support management software solution? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting vendor. At times, depending on the invoicing system (especially developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting service provider is making use of, the keen clients can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP areas to memorize... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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