Explanation of cPanel Hosting

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the current web hosting market are furnished by a quite insubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized business segment, which supplies a huge amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing absolutely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace offer exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a normal person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands across the world will offer you the very same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the current website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably answered most web hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point No.1: A dumb domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, 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 remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain 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)
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 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 puzzled? We categorically are!

Negative Point Number 2: The same e-mail folder system

The mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly reinforce their faith in God when managing the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too harshly.

Negative Sign Number 3: An absolute deficiency of domain name manipulation options

Do we have to bring up the utter deficiency of a modern domain administration GUI - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a major shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Drawback No.4: Multiple login locations (min two, maximum three)

What about the necessity for another login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and technical support management tool? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting vendor. Occasionally, based on the invoice transaction platform (principally devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting service provider is availing of, the earnest clients can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name management tool; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Inconvenience Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel departments to get to know... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting distributors:

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