cPanel Hosting Description

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on today's web hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which provides an enormous number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying one and the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace supply literally the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are only an average person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200k website hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands across the world will give you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on today's web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

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

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably fulfilled most website hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign No.1: A dumb domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how terrific 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 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 perplexed? We positively are!

Predicament No.2: The same mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder structure on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly fortify their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Negative Point Number Three: An utter deficiency of domain name management interfaces

Do we need to refer to the complete absence of a modern domain name management GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a colossal inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management software solution? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting vendor. Now and then, depending on the invoicing platform (principally tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the ardent clients can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain management software solution; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: More than a hundred and twenty CP departments to become familiar with... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a fine idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting firms:

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