cPanel Hosting Explanation

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting market are furnished by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing literally the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market furnish one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a normal bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web sites. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names around the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly covered most website hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming Number 1: A ludicrous domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra careful not to erase entirely 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

Are you getting puzzled? We certainly are!

Negative Point Number Two: The very same mail folder system

The mail folder arrangement on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too harshly.

Problem No.3: A complete lack of domain manipulation tools

Do we need to refer to the utter lack of a contemporary domain management user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois info, protect the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a gigantic shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Weakness Number 4: Many user login locations (min 2, maximum three)

What about the demand for an additional login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management user interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting service provider. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing platform (particularly invented for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting distributor is utilizing, the enthusiastic clients can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration platform; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: 120+ hosting Control Panel departments to become acquainted with... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a fine idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, 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? Remark that one too...