cPanel Web Hosting Explanation

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the current web hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying absolutely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting market provide exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an average guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web sites. 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 200,000 website hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names in the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably fulfilled all website hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number 1: A moronic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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)
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 baffled? We definitely are!

Negative Sign No.2: The very same e-mail folder system

The e-mail folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly fortify their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too badly.

Problem Number Three: A sheer shortage of domain name administration interfaces

Do we have to cite the sheer shortage of a modern domain administration menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a considerable drawback. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Negative Point Number Four: Numerous login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and tech support management section? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting firm. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing system (especially developed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is availing of, the earnest clients can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management section; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to learn... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a fine idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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