Explanation of cPanel Web Hosting

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on today's website hosting market are supplied by a quite insubstantial business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which furnishes a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering exactly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market furnish precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and online portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200,000 website hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names across the world will give you precisely the same cPanel CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably covered all web hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point Number One: A dumb domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very attentive not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular 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. Determine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 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 name)

Are you getting disorientated? We positively are!

Weak Point Number 2: The very same email folder configuration

The e-mail folder configuration on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly increase their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Negative Side Number Three: A complete shortage of domain administration options

Do we need to mention the sheer lack of a modern domain name management GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a gigantic predicament. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Negative Point Number Four: Numerous user login places (minimum two, max three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to use the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management user interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting firm. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (particularly conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting corporation is making use of, the devoted customers can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing/domain name administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Problem Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP areas to memorize... promptly

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

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

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