Explanation of cPanel Hosting

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the present web hosting market are generated by a quite insubstantial business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which provides an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying one and the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting market furnish strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

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

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only a regular person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k web hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names around the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on today's web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably satisfied most hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point No.1: A moronic domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra cautious not to remove 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). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
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)
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)

Are you growing confused? We doubtlessly are!

Shortcoming No.2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly fortify their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too seriously.

Problem Number Three: A thorough absence of domain manipulation options

Do we need to refer to the entire lack of a modern domain name manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a major downside. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Weakness No.4: Multiple login places (min two, max three)

What about the demand for another login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management tool? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting corporation. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing platform (especially meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting vendor is utilizing, the keen clients can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management system; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty CP areas to grasp... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the Control Panel. It's a great idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting suppliers:

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