What Does cPanel Website Hosting Denote?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on today's web hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing segment, which generates a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace provide one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are only an average bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and online portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 web hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brands all over the world will offer you the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present-day web hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly met most web hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the web hosting 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 name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name 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)
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 name)

Are you becoming baffled? We unquestionably are!

Predicament Number 2: The very same e-mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder structure on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly strengthen their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too severely.

Drawback Number 3: A complete absence of domain management user interfaces

Do we need to point out the entire shortage of a modern domain name administration tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an enormous problem. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Problem Number Four: Numerous login places (min two, max 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management section? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting firm. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing transaction platform (especially meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting company is using, the earnest users can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: More than 120 website hosting CP menus to grasp... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting firms:

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