What Does cPanel Website Hosting Represent?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized business segment, which furnishes an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering strictly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market provide one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200k "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The website hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary chap who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 website hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands in the world will give you precisely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the current hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps fulfilled all web hosting industry prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder setup is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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 name)
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 growing perplexed? We unquestionably are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The very same mail folder arrangement

The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly reinforce their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too severely.

Problem Number Three: An utter lack of domain administration tools

Do we have to mention the total deficiency of a contemporary domain name management tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a colossal predicament. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Negative Point No.4: Many user login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the need for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration interface? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting supplier. Occasionally, based on the invoice transaction platform (especially intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting provider is making use of, the devoted customers can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel departments to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting vendors:

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