cPanel Website Hosting Explanation

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the present web hosting market are supplied by a very insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which provides a great quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying strictly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace offer the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "web hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a normal chap who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k web hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names in the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present website hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps met most website hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign No.1: An idiotic domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next 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 web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located 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. Observe for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you becoming perplexed? We positively are!

Negative Point Number 2: The same mail folder structure

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too severely.

Drawback Number Three: An absolute lack of domain management options

Do we need to refer to the absolute absence of a contemporary domain administration menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" interface at all. That's an enormous inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...

Predicament Number 4: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, max three)

What about the need for an extra login to avail of the billing, domain name and tech support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting service provider. Occasionally, based on the billing platform (principally tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the keen customers can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing/domain name administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Point Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty Control Panel areas to learn... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting firms:

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...