What In Fact is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting market are generated by a very insignificant marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size business niche, which furnishes a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering absolutely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200,000 "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a regular bloke who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k web hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands all over the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the current website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly fulfilled most web hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder setup

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 dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located 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. Verify for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 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 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 growing baffled? We undoubtedly are!

Predicament Number Two: The very same email folder configuration

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too severely.

Shortcoming Number Three: An entire deficiency of domain administration tools

Do we have to refer to the total shortage of a modern domain name manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a great weakness. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Weakness No.4: Multiple user login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the need for another login to utilize the invoicing, domain and tech support administration section? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting service provider. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (particularly designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting distributor is making use of, the devoted clients can end up with two additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name management tool; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Weakness No.5: 120+ web hosting CP menus to become acquainted with... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ areas inside the hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to learn each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting suppliers:

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