Description of cPanel Website Hosting

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offerings on the current website hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering the very same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market supply absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

200,000 "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a normal chap who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can select? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 website hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, named differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on today's website hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly covered all web hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem No.1: A dumb domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located 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. Verify for yourself how fabulous 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)
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 confused? We unquestionably are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The same mail folder system

The email folder structure on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly increase their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too fatally.

Negative Sign No.3: A total deficiency of domain administration user interfaces

Do we have to mention the entire deficiency of a modern domain name administration tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a gigantic shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Drawback Number Four: Many user login places (min 2, max 3)

How about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the billing, domain name and tech support management software? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting firm. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (principally conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting service provider is making use of, the zealous customers can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration tool; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number 5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel departments to become acquainted with... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting distributors:

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