What Does cPanel Hosting Denote?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on today's web hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which generates an enormous quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the hosting offers on the whole web hosting market supply the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a normal guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names all over the world will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably answered most web hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number One: A moronic domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 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)

Are you getting confused? We certainly are!

Drawback Number 2: The very same mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly increase their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too gravely.

Negative Aspect Number 3: A total lack of domain administration tools

Do we need to bring up the sheer lack of a contemporary domain name management platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a mammoth shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Predicament No.4: Multiple login places (min two, max three)

How about the need for an extra login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and tech support management platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting vendor. Occasionally, based on the billing system (particularly conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting provider is making use of, the avid clients can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain name management section; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP areas to learn... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them quickly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting companies:

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