What Does cPanel Web Hosting Signify?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which generates an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying the very same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole hosting market supply the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an average guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k web hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brands around the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on today's hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably fulfilled all web hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem No.1: A ludicrous domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain 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. Verify for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 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)
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 becoming nonplussed? We positively are!

Weak Point Number 2: The very same mail folder setup

The email folder arrangement on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly increase their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too irreparably.

Shortcoming Number 3: A total shortage of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we need to mention the complete absence of a contemporary domain management user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a mammoth problem. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Negative Point Number Four: Many user login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the need for an additional login to access the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration section? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting vendor. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction system (particularly developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting corporation is using, the devoted clients can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing/domain administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Downside No.5: More than a hundred and twenty hosting CP departments to grasp... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting firms:

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...