cPanel Hosting Explanation

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on today's website hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insignificant marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which provides a vast quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering the very same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole hosting marketplace provide one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k web hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names around the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the current web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably covered most website hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you becoming puzzled? We positively are!

Weak Point No.2: The same mail folder arrangement

The mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly strengthen their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too badly.

Inconvenience Number 3: An absolute lack of domain management interfaces

Do we need to refer to the entire lack of a modern domain administration platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois information, protect the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a great drawback. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Drawback Number 4: Many login locations (minimum two, max three)

How about the demand for an extra login to access the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration software platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting corporation. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (principally devised for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting supplier is utilizing, the avid clients can end up with two extra login places (1: the billing/domain name management software; 2: the ticket support menu), ending up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Disadvantage No.5: More than one hundred and twenty Control Panel departments to get acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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