cPanel Web Hosting Explanation

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are provided by a very insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which provides a big amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the whole hosting marketplace furnish one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200,000 "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only a regular person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands worldwide will give you literally the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on today's web hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably satisfied all website hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number One: A foolish domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

Are you becoming nonplussed? We undeniably are!

Problem Number 2: The very same mail folder arrangement

The email folder arrangement on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly fortify their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Negative Aspect Number 3: An utter deficiency of domain management menus

Do we have to mention the thorough absence of a contemporary domain manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a gigantic inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Disadvantage Number Four: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the need for another login to use the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration system? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting provider. Now and then, based on the invoicing platform (principally created for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting distributor is utilizing, the eager users can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration GUI; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Side No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to memorize... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting suppliers:

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