Description of cPanel Website Hosting

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on today's web hosting marketplace are provided by a very inconsiderable business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which generates an enormous amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace provide precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200k "web hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only a regular bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k website hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names in the world will give you literally the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly satisfied all website hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point Number One: A moronic domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 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 name)

Are you getting nonplussed? We categorically are!

Inconvenience No.2: The same mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly fortify their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too irreparably.

Problem Number Three: An entire absence of domain name manipulation sections

Do we have to refer to the thorough absence of a modern domain administration tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois info, protect the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a major downside. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Drawback Number 4: Multiple login places (min two, max three)

What about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting provider. At times, based on the billing transaction platform (principally intended for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the zealous clients can end up with two extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management software solution; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP sections to become acquainted with... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to learn each of them. And you'd better learn them swiftly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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