cPanel Hosting Clarified

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale business segment, which furnishes a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing one and the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole hosting market offer literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

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

The web hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a normal guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names in the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on today's website hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

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

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps met all web hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side No.1: A ludicrous domain folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra watchful not to remove fully 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular 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. Discover for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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)
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 getting perplexed? We doubtlessly are!

Weak Side Number Two: The very same email folder configuration

The mail folder configuration on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly fortify their faith in God when managing the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too irreparably.

Negative Side Number Three: An absolute shortage of domain manipulation menus

Do we have to cite the entire absence of a modern domain management tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a mammoth problem. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Sign Number 4: Many login locations (minimum 2, max three)

How about the demand for another login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration software platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting firm. Now and then, depending on the billing tool (especially built for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the earnest clients can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing/domain management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Predicament No.5: More than 120 website hosting CP sections to pick up... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better grasp them promptly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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