Explanation of cPanel Website Hosting

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel hosting offers on today's website hosting market are generated by a very insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which supplies a great number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace supply precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an average guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands in the world will give you literally the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the contemporary web hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably fulfilled most web hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament Number One: A moronic domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you growing baffled? We undoubtedly are!

Weakness Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder setup

The e-mail folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly fortify their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too gravely.

Predicament Number 3: A complete shortage of domain name management options

Do we have to bring up the utter lack of a modern domain manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a major drawback. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Problem Number Four: Many login places (min two, max 3)

What about the demand for another login to use the invoicing, domain name and tech support management menu? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting firm. Occasionally, depending on the billing transaction platform (principally conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting vendor is availing of, the keen users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name management software platform; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP sections to memorize... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a superb idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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