cPanel Hosting Explanation

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting market are furnished by a quite insignificant marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which furnishes a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace provide exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/CP choice. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are just a normal fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200k web hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different hosting brands worldwide will give you the very same cPanel Control Panel and platform, named differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on today's web hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly satisfied all website hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number 1: A foolish domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, 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 server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you becoming disorientated? We absolutely are!

Negative Point Number 2: The same electronic mail folder setup

The email folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly increase their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too irreparably.

Drawback Number Three: A thorough deficiency of domain name management tools

Do we have to cite the utter deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a colossal drawback. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Shortcoming No.4: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the demand for an extra login to access the billing transaction, domain and technical support management section? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting supplier. At times, based on the invoice transaction platform (especially designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting company is utilizing, the devoted users can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management software platform; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: 120+ web hosting Control Panel areas to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better memorize them rapidly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting suppliers:

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