cPanel Web Hosting Clarified

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the current hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite unsubstantial business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which generates a huge quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing absolutely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market provide the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only a regular person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the present-day web hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably satisfied most web hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number One: A moronic domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub 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 delete on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 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 confused? We absolutely are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The very same email folder arrangement

The mail folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too harshly.

Downside No.3: A sheer lack of domain management interfaces

Do we have to bring up the sheer absence of a modern domain administration GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a considerable weakness. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Negative Side No.4: Many user login places (min 2, max three)

What about the need for an extra login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management system? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting service provider. Occasionally, based on the invoicing system (particularly intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting provider is making use of, the devoted users can end up with two additional logins (1: the billing/domain name administration software solution; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty CP departments to grasp... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ menus inside the hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to learn each of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting suppliers:

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...