cPanel Hosting Explanation

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the current website hosting marketplace are generated by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying exactly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace provide one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/CP choice. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an ordinary fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k website hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the contemporary web hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably answered most website hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side No.1: An imbecilic domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent 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 created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 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 disorientated? We undoubtedly are!

Predicament No.2: The very same mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly reinforce their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too seriously.

Drawback Number Three: A thorough deficiency of domain name administration interfaces

Do we need to point out the complete absence of a modern domain manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" menu at all. That's a major disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting provider. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing tool (particularly meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting corporation is using, the eager customers can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: More than a hundred and twenty CP menus to get acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better learn them promptly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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