cPanel Website Hosting Defined

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the present web hosting market are generated by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying strictly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace supply one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

200k "hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web sites. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the present web hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably covered most web hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience Number One: A ludicrous domain folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how marvelous 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 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)
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 becoming bewildered? We positively are!

Weak Side Number Two: The same e-mail folder structure

The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly strengthen their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too irretrievably.

Weak Side No.3: A thorough shortage of domain name manipulation tools

Do we need to point out the entire absence of a modern domain administration menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a major problem. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Negative Side Number Four: Many user login places (min two, maximum three)

What about the demand for an extra login to use the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration software? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting corporation. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (particularly tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting corporation is availing of, the eager users can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration section; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: 120+ web hosting Control Panel menus to grasp... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting distributors:

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