cPanel Website Hosting Description

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are provided by a very insignificant business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which supplies an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering exactly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace supply literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200k "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a regular bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and websites. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k website hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names around the world will give you literally the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the present web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably covered all hosting market prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain 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)
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)

Are you growing puzzled? We undeniably are!

Shortcoming No.2: The very same email folder system

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to mess things up too seriously.

Negative Side Number Three: A thorough shortage of domain name administration options

Do we need to refer to the utter absence of a contemporary domain name management menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois information, protect the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" section at all. That's a huge weakness. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Drawback Number Four: Numerous user login places (minimum two, max 3)

How about the need for another login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management tool? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting service provider. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (especially intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting distributor is using, the devoted customers can end up with two additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP menus to get familiar with... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the hosting CP. It's a superb idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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