What Does cPanel Web Hosting Denote?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the present-day website hosting marketplace are provided by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which generates an immense number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering precisely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace supply strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply an average fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names all over the world will give you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great 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 strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly satisfied most web hosting industry prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely careful 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 quite easy to erase on the server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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 domains, please. Decide for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder setup 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 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 getting bewildered? We doubtlessly are!

Shortcoming No.2: The same mail folder arrangement

The mail folder structure on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly fortify their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too badly.

Negative Aspect Number 3: An utter absence of domain administration user interfaces

Do we have to cite the entire deficiency of a modern domain administration tool - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a mammoth inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Shortcoming Number Four: Numerous login places (min two, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to use the billing, domain and tech support management software solution? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting supplier. At times, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (especially devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the enthusiastic users can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management system; 2: the trouble ticket support software), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: More than 120 hosting Control Panel sections to pick up... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...