cPanel Website Hosting Description

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on today's website hosting market are supplied by a very insignificant business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale business segment, which furnishes a great quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying literally the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting market provide precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 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 service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a normal chap who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands all over the world will offer you the very same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly covered most website hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number 1: A laughable domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra watchful not to erase completely 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 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 name)

Are you becoming baffled? We positively are!

Negative Point Number Two: The same e-mail folder system

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly increase their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too irreparably.

Downside No.3: A total lack of domain administration GUIs

Do we need to cite the utter lack of a modern domain management interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois info, protect the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a big disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Downside No.4: Many login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the demand for an extra login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting corporation. Sometimes, depending on the billing tool (particularly created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the avid clients can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing/domain name management platform; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel departments to learn... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the hosting CP. It's a fine idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's extremely insolent 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 aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...