What In Fact is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it’s good to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are generated by a very insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which supplies a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing literally the same services: 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 whole web hosting marketplace supply strictly the same service: cPanel. There’s no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one…

200,000 “web hosting service providers”, all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The web hosting “variety” and the website hosting “offerings” Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100’s of 1000’s of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a regular chap who’s not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and online portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here’s where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names around the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That’s how huge the diversity on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is… Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty…

The strong and weak points of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let’s not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly fulfilled most website hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names…

Inconvenience Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that’s how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how amazing cPanel’s domain name folder system 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)
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)

Are you becoming puzzled? We categorically are!

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

The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains… Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly enhance their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Shortcoming No.3: A complete deficiency of domain management options

Do we need to cite the total shortage of a modern domain administration menu – a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains’ Whois information, shield the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a “contemporary” GUI at all. That’s an immense downside. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out…

Problem Number Four: Multiple login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the demand for an extra login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration software solution? That’s beside the cPanel user account login credentials you’ve been already provided by the cPanel web hosting company. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (particularly conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the keen clients can wind up with two extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Downside Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel departments to get familiar with… promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the hosting Control Panel. It’s an excellent idea to get familiar with each of them. And you’d better become acquainted with them swiftly… That’s inordinately impertinent on cPanel’s side.

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

As far as we are informed, it’s not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too…