cPanel Website Hosting Explanation

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the current website hosting market are supplied by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which supplies a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing the very same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace offer one and the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

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

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an average person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names worldwide will offer you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the current hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably satisfied most website hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament Number 1: A stupid domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the web hosting server, since 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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 puzzled? We positively are!

Shortcoming Number Two: The same e-mail folder system

The mail folder structure on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly fortify their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irreparably.

Inconvenience Number 3: A sheer shortage of domain management interfaces

Do we have to refer to the entire lack of a modern domain manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a great problem. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Disadvantage No.4: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the need for another login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration software? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting company. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing platform (especially created for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting company is using, the ardent customers can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management system; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Side Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty hosting CP menus to pick up... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get to know them quickly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting firms:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...