Explanation of cPanel Hosting

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the current hosting marketplace are supplied by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which furnishes a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying absolutely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200,000 "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an average guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k website hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique hosting brand names across the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on today's web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably covered most web hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you getting baffled? We certainly are!

Negative Point Number Two: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too severely.

Drawback Number 3: An absolute shortage of domain name administration sections

Do we have to mention the utter shortage of a modern domain manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a major shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Downside Number Four: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the demand for another login to access the invoicing, domain name and tech support management platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting distributor. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing system (particularly meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is utilizing, the eager users can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management user interface; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: 120+ hosting Control Panel departments to become acquainted with... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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