Description of cPanel Website Hosting

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting market are supplied by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing segment, which furnishes a vast number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing precisely the same solutions: chiefly 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 offerings on the whole website hosting market furnish exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/Control Panel option. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are just a normal guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brand names worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the current website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably satisfied all website hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number 1: A ludicrous domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder setup 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)
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 undeniably are!

Negative Side Number 2: The same mail folder structure

The email folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly fortify their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too severely.

Negative Aspect Number 3: A thorough absence of domain name manipulation options

Do we have to point out the utter lack of a modern domain name administration platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an immense shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Weakness No.4: Many user login places (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the need for another login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration user interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting firm. Occasionally, based on the invoicing transaction tool (particularly built for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the ardent customers can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number 5: More than 120 hosting CP sections to memorize... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting vendors:

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...