What Does cPanel Web Hosting Denote?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which supplies an immense number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering exactly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole hosting market offer exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/CP choice. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200k "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are only a regular fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brand names across the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present-day website hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably covered all website hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness No.1: An idiotic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, though, be very attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder setup 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)
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 name)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
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 growing puzzled? We undeniably are!

Negative Point Number 2: The same electronic mail folder structure

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too severely.

Negative Side No.3: An entire absence of domain administration menus

Do we have to mention the entire shortage of a contemporary domain administration user interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a huge inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Multiple user login locations (min two, maximum three)

How about the necessity for another login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management software? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting company. At times, based on the invoicing transaction platform (principally created for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting firm is availing of, the earnest users can end up with two extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Side No.5: More than one hundred and twenty Control Panel menus to get to know... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them fast... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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