Description of cPanel Web Hosting

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the present-day website hosting marketplace are generated by a very insignificant marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which generates an enormous number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying literally the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace supply the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just a normal guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k website hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands across the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably fulfilled most web hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number One: A foolish domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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 growing bewildered? We undoubtedly are!

Negative Point Number 2: The same mail folder system

The email folder structure on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to muck things up too severely.

Negative Side No.3: A thorough absence of domain administration options

Do we have to bring up the entire shortage of a contemporary domain management interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" menu at all. That's an enormous downside. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Inconvenience Number 4: Multiple login locations (min 2, max 3)

How about the need for another login to avail of the billing, domain name and tech support management system? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting provider. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing tool (especially invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting vendor is utilizing, the eager clients can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing/domain name administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Point Number 5: 120+ hosting Control Panel areas to grasp... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ areas inside the CP. It's a terrific idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them promptly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting companies:

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