What Does cPanel Website Hosting Mean?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting market are provided by a very insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which generates an enormous number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying the very same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market supply one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a regular person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and websites. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 website hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands around the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present-day website hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps satisfied most website hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number One: A laughable 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 new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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 becoming nonplussed? We doubtlessly are!

Weakness Number 2: The same mail folder structure

The email folder structure on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly increase their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too gravely.

Problem No.3: An absolute shortage of domain name administration interfaces

Do we have to refer to the entire lack of a modern domain administration interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois details, secure the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a mammoth drawback. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Many user login places (min two, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to access the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration user interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting vendor. At times, depending on the billing transaction tool (particularly intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the zealous users can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side No.5: 120+ CP departments to pick up... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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