What Precisely is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your info, it’s good to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on today’s website hosting marketplace are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size business niche, which generates a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing exactly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace provide strictly the same service: cPanel. There’s no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/Control Panel choice. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one…

200,000 “web hosting companies”, all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web hosting “diversity” and the web hosting “offerings” Google presents to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100’s of 1000’s of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a normal guy who’s not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and online portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here’s where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands in the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That’s how huge the variety on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is… Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in fifty…

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let’s not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps covered most web hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names…

Negative Aspect Number One: A moronic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely cautious not to delete completely the add-on ones (that’s how cPanel will refer to 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 web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located 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. See for yourself how amazing cPanel’s domain folder structure 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)
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 becoming disorientated? We undeniably are!

Predicament No.2: The same mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domains… Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly fortify their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Weak Point Number Three: A total absence of domain name administration sections

Do we need to refer to the complete absence of a contemporary domain administration GUI – a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains’ Whois details, shield the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a “contemporary” tool at all. That’s an enormous problem. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out…

Shortcoming Number Four: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, max three)

How about the need for an extra login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration tool? That’s aside from the cPanel login credentials you’ve been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting firm. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing system (particularly built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the zealous users can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management section; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Problem No.5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel menus to get to know… quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It’s a fantastic idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you’d better pick them up swiftly… That’s quite impertinent on cPanel’s side.

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

As far as we are aware of, it’s not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well…