cPanel Website Hosting Clarified

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on today's web hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which provides a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering exactly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace supply absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200k "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a regular guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200k web hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names around the world will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the current web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably satisfied most hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

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

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the hosting server, since they all are created 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder system 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 name)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain)
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 getting perplexed? We absolutely are!

Weak Side No.2: The same mail folder system

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too seriously.

Downside Number Three: A complete shortage of domain name manipulation tools

Do we need to refer to the complete shortage of a contemporary domain manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois details, shield the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an enormous problem. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Predicament No.4: Numerous login places (minimum two, max 3)

How about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management system? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting service provider. At times, based on the invoicing system (particularly tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the keen users can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing/domain name management system; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: 120+ website hosting Control Panel sections to become acquainted with... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the CP. It's a fantastic idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up briskly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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