What In Fact is cPanel Hosting?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the current web hosting market are supplied by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small marketing niche, which furnishes a vast number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering literally the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market furnish the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/CP option. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200k "web hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a regular chap who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web pages. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names across the world will offer you the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly answered all website hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number One: A dumb domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very attentive 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 easy to erase on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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)
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 getting perplexed? We absolutely are!

Negative Sign No.2: The same e-mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly strengthen their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too gravely.

Negative Point Number Three: An absolute absence of domain name management menus

Do we need to refer to the absolute absence of a contemporary domain management user interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a considerable drawback. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Shortcoming No.4: Numerous login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an extra login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration system? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting provider. At times, depending on the billing transaction system (especially devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the devoted clients can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management software; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP departments to memorize... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ areas inside the Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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