Description of cPanel Web Hosting

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the contemporary hosting market are furnished by a very insubstantial business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which furnishes a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing one and the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the entire hosting marketplace provide one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. So, 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 two percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an ordinary bloke who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 website hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brands across the world will give you the very same cPanel hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the present-day web hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably fulfilled most website hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra attentive not to delete fully 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 quite easy to remove on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain 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)
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 becoming baffled? We certainly are!

Shortcoming No.2: The very same email folder structure

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to mess things up too harshly.

Inconvenience Number Three: A total shortage of domain management options

Do we have to bring up the utter shortage of a modern domain manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a big disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Predicament No.4: Multiple user login places (min 2, max 3)

What about the need for an extra login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration software? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting supplier. At times, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (particularly meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the enthusiastic users can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management GUI; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Downside No.5: 120+ web hosting CP sections to become acquainted with... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the CP. It's an excellent idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting corporations:

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