Description of cPanel Web Hosting

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size business niche, which furnishes an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering strictly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace provide exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/CP option. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a normal chap who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and online portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brand names all over the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present-day web hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps covered all web hosting market preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament Number One: A laughable domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known 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 delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how great 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 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 becoming confused? We categorically are!

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

The email folder structure on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly enhance their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too irreparably.

Shortcoming Number 3: A total lack of domain administration interfaces

Do we have to refer to the thorough shortage of a contemporary domain manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a huge disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Negative Side Number 4: Many login locations (min two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to use the billing, domain name and tech support management menu? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting supplier. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing system (especially intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is using, the avid customers can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name administration software solution; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Point Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP areas to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the CP. It's a fine idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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