What Indeed is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on today's website hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which provides a vast number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering precisely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting market offer absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200k "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an average chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k website hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands around the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present website hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps satisfied all web hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament Number One: A foolish domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name 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 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 growing disorientated? We undeniably are!

Negative Side Number Two: The same e-mail folder setup

The email folder configuration on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too gravely.

Weak Side No.3: An utter absence of domain name manipulation sections

Do we need to refer to the entire deficiency of a modern domain manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois details, shield the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a colossal drawback. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Inconvenience Number Four: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the need for an extra login to access the invoicing, domain and tech support management software? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting service provider. At times, on the basis of the invoicing system (especially made for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting vendor is utilizing, the devoted users can end up with two extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management system; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Drawback No.5: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel areas to get acquainted with... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting vendors:

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