Explanation of cPanel Web Hosting

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on today's web hosting market are furnished by a very insignificant business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which provides a huge quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting market supply one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an average bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and online portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k website hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names worldwide will offer you the very same cPanel Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably met most web hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number 1: A foolish domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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)
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 puzzled? We absolutely are!

Weakness Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder system

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too harshly.

Problem Number 3: A total deficiency of domain management tools

Do we have to refer to the absolute absence of a modern domain administration platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a colossal downside. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Inconvenience Number Four: Many user login locations (min 2, max three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the billing, domain and tech support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting provider. Now and then, depending on the billing transaction system (principally created for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting corporation is utilizing, the ardent customers can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name management software; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number 5: More than 120 website hosting CP menus to learn... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...