Explanation of cPanel Hosting

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting market are supplied by a quite insignificant marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which furnishes an enormous amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing precisely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market furnish exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a regular fellow who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 web hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brands worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on today's hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps satisfied all website hosting industry prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point No.1: A moronic domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you growing baffled? We undoubtedly are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The very same e-mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too seriously.

Weakness No.3: A total deficiency of domain name management menus

Do we need to mention the sheer deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois info, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" user interface at all. That's an immense weakness. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Inconvenience Number 4: Numerous login places (min two, maximum three)

What about the demand for another login to use the invoicing, domain and technical support management interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting distributor. Occasionally, depending on the billing tool (especially developed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the earnest users can end up with two additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name management system; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP areas to get acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the Control Panel. It's a superb idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up briskly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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