Explanation of cPanel Web Hosting

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offerings on today's website hosting market are provided by a very insignificant business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which furnishes an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market supply exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200k "hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an average person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands in the world will give you strictly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on today's web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly met most web hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number 1: A ludicrous domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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 categorically are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The same e-mail folder system

The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Negative Sign Number 3: A complete shortage of domain name administration menus

Do we need to refer to the sheer lack of a contemporary domain name administration platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a mammoth disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Disadvantage Number Four: Many user login places (min 2, max three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to access the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting firm. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (principally made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting company is making use of, the enthusiastic customers can end up with two additional logins (1: the billing/domain administration tool; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP sections to become familiar with... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the CP. It's a marvelous idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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