Explanation of cPanel Hosting

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the current website hosting marketplace are generated by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale business segment, which generates a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering one and the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting market furnish exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/hosting CP alternative. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are only an ordinary guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k web hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names in the world will give you the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present-day website hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

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

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly covered all web hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known 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 delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain 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 name)
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 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)

Are you becoming confused? We undoubtedly are!

Predicament Number Two: The very same email folder arrangement

The mail folder configuration on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly increase their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too harshly.

Predicament No.3: A sheer absence of domain name administration menus

Do we have to point out the complete absence of a contemporary domain manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois information, protect the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" tool at all. That's a major inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Downside Number Four: Multiple user login locations (min 2, max three)

How about the need for an additional login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration tool? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting corporation. At times, on the basis of the billing transaction system (principally intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the avid users can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

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

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them fast... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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