What Does cPanel Website Hosting Signify?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the current web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which generates a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering literally the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. 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 offer one and the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200k "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a normal person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names in the world will give you the same cPanel CP and platform, branded differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the contemporary hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a great strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably met all web hosting market prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem No.1: An idiotic domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how amazing 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 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)

Are you growing baffled? We undoubtedly are!

Problem Number 2: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly fortify their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too seriously.

Negative Aspect Number 3: A thorough deficiency of domain name administration GUIs

Do we have to point out the absolute deficiency of a modern domain name management GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" section at all. That's a considerable disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Disadvantage No.4: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the necessity for another login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management system? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting firm. At times, based on the billing transaction system (particularly meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is availing of, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name management software solution; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Side No.5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting CP departments to become familiar with... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting service providers:

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