cPanel Web Hosting Defined

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on the present-day web hosting market are provided by a very insubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which furnishes a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering exactly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market offer the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/CP alternative. So, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names all over the world will give you precisely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the current website hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably fulfilled all web hosting market demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
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 growing confused? We certainly are!

Predicament No.2: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly strengthen their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too severely.

Weak Point Number 3: An absolute deficiency of domain administration options

Do we have to bring up the absolute deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois info, protect the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" section at all. That's an enormous disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Weak Side Number 4: Many user login places (min two, maximum 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration software solution? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting service provider. At times, based on the billing tool (particularly intended for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting supplier is availing of, the enthusiastic clients can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel departments to get acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a great idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting service providers:

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