cPanel Website Hosting Revealed

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on today's web hosting market are furnished by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which generates an immense number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing strictly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole hosting marketplace provide literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The web hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an ordinary guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names worldwide will offer you the very same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on today's web hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly satisfied all hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament Number 1: A stupid domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder system 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 getting confused? We definitely are!

Shortcoming Number Two: The same electronic mail folder setup

The mail folder structure on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly reinforce their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irretrievably.

Weakness Number Three: An utter lack of domain administration interfaces

Do we need to mention the total deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's an immense shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Numerous user login places (minimum two, max three)

How about the need for an additional login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting corporation. Sometimes, based on the billing platform (principally built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is utilizing, the enthusiastic users can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration software platform; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel menus to grasp... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting vendors:

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