cPanel Website Hosting Explained

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are provided by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which generates a huge amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing one and the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace offer precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are just a regular chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brands worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on today's website hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably satisfied most website hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side No.1: A moronic domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the web server, because they all are located 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 delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder system 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 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 definitely are!

Negative Sign No.2: The same e-mail folder structure

The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too seriously.

Negative Point Number Three: A thorough lack of domain administration user interfaces

Do we need to mention the thorough shortage of a contemporary domain administration interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a great inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Drawback Number Four: Multiple user login places (min two, maximum three)

What about the need for an extra login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration tool? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting provider. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction platform (particularly created for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting distributor is availing of, the keen clients can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name management software solution; 2: the ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Sign Number 5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel menus to learn... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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