cPanel Hosting Explained

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on today's website hosting marketplace are furnished by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which supplies an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering absolutely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting market furnish absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200,000 "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an ordinary person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably met all hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous 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. Decide for yourself how fabulous 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 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 name)

Are you getting confused? We categorically are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder system

The mail folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly enhance their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too badly.

Negative Point Number Three: A total absence of domain name management sections

Do we need to bring up the absolute shortage of a contemporary domain name administration interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" menu at all. That's a gigantic problem. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Drawback Number Four: Many user login places (minimum 2, max three)

What about the demand for an additional login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration system? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting service provider. At times, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (principally tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting vendor is availing of, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain name administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel sections to memorize... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting distributors:

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