What Does cPanel Website Hosting Mean?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which supplies an enormous number of different web hosting brands, yet providing precisely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace offer the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "website hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k website hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brands across the world will give you the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on today's web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps satisfied most web hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback No.1: A dumb domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra watchful 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 domain names are quite easy to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, 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 name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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 getting disorientated? We categorically are!

Weak Side No.2: The same mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too irretrievably.

Weakness Number 3: An entire deficiency of domain name manipulation sections

Do we have to refer to the thorough lack of a modern domain name manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a colossal predicament. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Disadvantage No.4: Numerous login places (min two, maximum three)

How about the demand for an extra login to use the invoicing, domain and tech support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting firm. Occasionally, depending on the billing tool (especially made for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting company is using, the ardent clients can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing/domain management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Problem Number Five: 120+ web hosting Control Panel areas to learn... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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