cPanel Web Hosting Explanation

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel hosting offers on the current website hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering literally the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the entire hosting marketplace supply precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200,000 "hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an average bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 website hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names in the world will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps fulfilled all web hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number One: An imbecilic domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how great 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 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 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)

Are you becoming confused? We unquestionably are!

Weakness Number Two: The same electronic mail folder structure

The mail folder configuration on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly strengthen their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Negative Sign Number 3: An entire deficiency of domain management interfaces

Do we need to bring up the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a big drawback. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...

Shortcoming Number Four: Multiple login locations (minimum two, max three)

What about the need for another login to utilize the invoicing, domain and tech support management software? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting vendor. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (particularly designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting supplier is availing of, the keen clients can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management tool; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Drawback No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP menus to get to know... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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