Explanation of cPanel Web Hosting

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting market are provided by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which provides an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering literally the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace provide the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

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

The hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an average person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names in the world will give you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present-day hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably satisfied all website hosting industry demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback No.1: A laughable domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you getting bewildered? We clearly are!

Weakness Number 2: The same e-mail folder setup

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly enhance their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to mess things up too severely.

Weakness Number 3: An entire absence of domain manipulation interfaces

Do we need to point out the absolute lack of a contemporary domain administration GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a gigantic predicament. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Weak Point No.4: Many login locations (minimum two, max three)

How about the need for an additional login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management GUI? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting vendor. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing platform (especially built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting vendor is availing of, the eager users can wind up with two extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain management software solution; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage No.5: 120+ hosting CP departments to become familiar with... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them fast... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting service providers:

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