cPanel Hosting Explanation

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the current web hosting market are supplied by a quite insignificant marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which supplies an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing one and the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole hosting marketplace furnish literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

200k "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a normal bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and online portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k website hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names in the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps satisfied all website hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side Number 1: A dumb domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely attentive not to remove fully 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 domains are very simple to delete on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular 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 remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain 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)
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 name)

Are you getting perplexed? We undoubtedly are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The very same email folder setup

The email folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly increase their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too harshly.

Negative Aspect Number Three: A thorough absence of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we have to refer to the utter lack of a modern domain manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a big downside. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Weakness No.4: Numerous user login places (min 2, maximum three)

What about the demand for another login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting company. Sometimes, depending on the invoice transaction tool (especially intended for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the keen clients can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management menu; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP sections to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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