What Does cPanel Website Hosting Denote?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting market are supplied by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which supplies an enormous quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace provide one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

200k "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a normal person who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 website hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names worldwide will offer you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the contemporary web hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably met most website hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect No.1: An idiotic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located 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. Determine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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 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)

Are you becoming confused? We positively are!

Weak Point No.2: The same email folder structure

The email folder configuration on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too seriously.

Negative Point Number 3: An utter absence of domain manipulation options

Do we have to point out the complete absence of a modern domain management interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a gigantic disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Sign Number Four: Numerous login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for another login to access the invoicing, domain name and tech support management interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting firm. At times, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (principally created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the ardent users can end up with two extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration software; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel areas to memorize... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the CP. It's a superb idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them quickly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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