Description of cPanel Website Hosting

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on today's website hosting marketplace are provided by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which furnishes an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering absolutely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a regular chap who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web sites. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brands across the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps covered most web hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming Number One: A moronic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to 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 simple to erase on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous 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 attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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 name)

Are you growing perplexed? We absolutely are!

Predicament Number Two: The very same e-mail folder structure

The email folder structure on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly fortify their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too gravely.

Problem No.3: A total shortage of domain manipulation options

Do we need to cite the complete shortage of a contemporary domain administration GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a colossal disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Negative Sign Number 4: Numerous user login places (min two, max three)

What about the demand for another login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration software solution? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting vendor. At times, depending on the invoicing tool (particularly built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting vendor is availing of, the devoted customers can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the billing/domain name management section; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Predicament Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel menus to get to know... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better grasp them promptly... That's quite 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 aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...