cPanel Hosting Explained

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting market are generated by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies a big amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing strictly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market offer literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a normal chap who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web pages. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brand names around the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the current website hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably covered all hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra attentive not to delete entirely 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 very easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how good 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)
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 name)

Are you growing disorientated? We unquestionably are!

Negative Point Number Two: The same e-mail folder system

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too harshly.

Negative Aspect No.3: A thorough absence of domain management menus

Do we need to point out the utter lack of a contemporary domain administration menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a mammoth drawback. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Drawback Number Four: Many user login locations (min two, max 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration software platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting service provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (principally tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting service provider is availing of, the avid clients can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration interface; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number Five: 120+ hosting Control Panel departments to memorize... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a superb idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting service providers:

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...