Explanation of cPanel Hosting

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on today's web hosting marketplace are provided by a very insignificant marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size business niche, which generates a big amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing absolutely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace provide precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a normal bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k website hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brand names worldwide will offer you the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on today's website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps answered most web hosting market prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number One: An idiotic domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you becoming perplexed? We clearly are!

Negative Sign No.2: The very same electronic mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder structure on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly increase their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irreparably.

Negative Side No.3: A sheer shortage of domain administration GUIs

Do we have to refer to the absolute shortage of a contemporary domain administration menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a huge problem. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Weak Point Number 4: Many login places (min 2, max three)

What about the need for an additional login to avail of the billing, domain and technical support administration user interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting distributor. At times, depending on the invoice transaction platform (principally built for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting provider is using, the devoted customers can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number 5: More than 120 web hosting CP sections to memorize... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting suppliers:

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