What Does cPanel Hosting Mean?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which furnishes an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet offering strictly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market offer strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200,000 "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a normal guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands around the world will give you the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps satisfied all website hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming No.1: A foolish domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be very cautious not to erase 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 domain names are very simple to delete on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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. See for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 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)
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 baffled? We definitely are!

Downside Number Two: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The email folder configuration on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly fortify their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too severely.

Weak Point Number 3: A complete deficiency of domain name administration options

Do we have to mention the utter shortage of a modern domain management platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an enormous weakness. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Disadvantage Number Four: Multiple user login places (min 2, max three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration system? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting provider. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing platform (principally developed for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting provider is utilizing, the eager users can wind up with two additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to get acquainted with... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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