Description of cPanel Web Hosting

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting market are generated by a very insignificant business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which generates a great amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing precisely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace provide the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200,000 "hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a normal fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web pages. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands around the world will give you strictly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the current website hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably met all website hosting market prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament No.1: An idiotic domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name 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)
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 name)
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 becoming puzzled? We certainly are!

Weakness No.2: The very same e-mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too gravely.

Shortcoming No.3: An absolute shortage of domain administration sections

Do we need to refer to the total lack of a contemporary domain name administration menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois info, secure the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a major predicament. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Predicament Number Four: Multiple login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the need for another login to access the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration software solution? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting vendor. Occasionally, depending on the billing system (principally developed for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting corporation is utilizing, the ardent clients can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain name administration menu; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel menus to pick up... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting distributors:

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