Description of cPanel Hosting

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the current website hosting marketplace are furnished by a very inconsiderable business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size business niche, which furnishes an enormous amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing absolutely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting market provide one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/hosting CP option. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just a regular fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brands in the world will offer you the very same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on today's web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably covered most web hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed 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 terrific cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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 puzzled? We absolutely are!

Problem Number 2: The same e-mail folder structure

The email folder configuration on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly increase their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too irreparably.

Drawback Number 3: An entire absence of domain management options

Do we have to point out the sheer absence of a contemporary domain management interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a vast drawback. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Side No.4: Many user login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the need for an extra login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management software platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting supplier. Occasionally, depending on the billing transaction platform (principally designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting vendor is using, the avid users can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management GUI; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP departments to become familiar with... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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