cPanel Website Hosting Unveiled

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting marketplace are generated by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which provides a great amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying one and the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace provide strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200k "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an average bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names all over the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on today's web hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably answered all web hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number One: A dumb domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new 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 server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed 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. See for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 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 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 growing nonplussed? We categorically are!

Predicament No.2: The very same electronic mail folder setup

The email folder arrangement on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly enhance their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too badly.

Negative Sign Number Three: A thorough lack of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we have to mention the sheer shortage of a contemporary domain administration platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" tool at all. That's a mammoth drawback. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Shortcoming Number Four: Many user login locations (min 2, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to access the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting vendor. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing transaction system (particularly designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the keen clients can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management software; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP areas to learn... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ menus inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting distributors:

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