cPanel Web Hosting Explanation

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on today's web hosting marketplace are supplied by a very inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet offering literally the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace supply absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200k "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply an average person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brands in the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably fulfilled most web hosting industry preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number 1: A foolish domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular 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 domain names, please. Discover for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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 becoming confused? We definitely are!

Shortcoming Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder structure

The email folder arrangement on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly reinforce their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irreparably.

Predicament Number Three: A complete shortage of domain name manipulation options

Do we have to bring up the absolute lack of a contemporary domain administration menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a big downside. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Aspect No.4: Numerous user login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the need for an additional login to avail of the billing, domain and technical support administration software? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting corporation. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (principally invented for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting corporation is making use of, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with two additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain administration platform; 2: the ticket support menu), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number 5: 120+ web hosting CP areas to get acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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