Explanation of cPanel Hosting

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel Hosting offers on the present-day website hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which provides a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market provide strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "Hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The Hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an ordinary guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and online portals. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k website hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different hosting brands all over the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the contemporary web hosting market is... Full stop.

The Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based Hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps fulfilled most hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number One: A moronic domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the server, because 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 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 domain names, please. Check for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder system 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 disorientated? We positively are!

Inconvenience No.2: The very same electronic mail folder structure

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too irreparably.

Shortcoming Number Three: An absolute lack of domain manipulation interfaces

Do we need to refer to the total deficiency of a modern domain manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a gigantic drawback. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Point Number 4: Numerous login locations (minimum two, max 3)

How about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the invoicing, domain and technical support administration section? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Hosting service provider. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (principally made for cPanel only) the cPanel Hosting firm is availing of, the zealous clients can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Problem Number Five: 120+ website hosting Control Panel sections to become acquainted with... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 areas inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to learn each of them. And you'd better learn them rapidly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting providers:

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