cPanel Website Hosting Explanation

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the present website hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized business segment, which generates a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing strictly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace offer strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200,000 "website hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are merely a regular chap who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 website hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands worldwide will offer you strictly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly satisfied all web hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

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

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name 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)
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 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)

Are you getting nonplussed? We clearly are!

Negative Side Number Two: The same electronic mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly strengthen their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too seriously.

Negative Aspect Number 3: A total lack of domain management tools

Do we have to cite the total deficiency of a modern domain name management user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a gigantic problem. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Negative Point Number Four: Many login places (min 2, max three)

What about the necessity for another login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management user interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting supplier. At times, based on the invoice transaction tool (principally built for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting firm is utilizing, the eager users can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Problem Number 5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel areas to pick up... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a superb idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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