Explanation of cPanel Web Hosting

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the present-day web hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insignificant marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing segment, which generates a big amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering literally the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market furnish literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

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

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a regular fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web pages. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k website hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names in the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on today's website hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an enormous 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 positive and negative sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps covered all website hosting industry demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number One: A laughable domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you getting disorientated? We unquestionably are!

Drawback Number 2: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly increase their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too harshly.

Negative Side Number 3: An entire absence of domain name manipulation GUIs

Do we have to mention the sheer deficiency of a modern domain name management menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a vast disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Downside No.4: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the demand for an additional login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting company. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (principally tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting firm is utilizing, the devoted users can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Drawback No.5: More than 120 website hosting CP sections to get acquainted with... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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