What Does cPanel Hosting Stand for?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the current web hosting market are supplied by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which generates a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering literally the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting market offer precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

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

The web hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a normal guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and websites. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands around the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the current web hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps answered all website hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number 1: A moronic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 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 confused? We certainly are!

Drawback No.2: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The email folder structure on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too irreparably.

Predicament Number 3: A sheer lack of domain name administration tools

Do we need to mention the sheer lack of a contemporary domain name administration user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a major predicament. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Many login places (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the need for another login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration system? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting supplier. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (especially tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the eager clients can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing/domain management GUI; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel areas to pick up... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a fine idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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