cPanel Web Hosting Explained

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on the current web hosting market are generated by a very insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing precisely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200k "hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a normal fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and websites. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brand names across the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the current hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably satisfied all web hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated 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 good cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you getting baffled? We certainly are!

Drawback Number 2: The same email folder configuration

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly enhance their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too fatally.

Problem Number 3: A complete lack of domain name manipulation tools

Do we need to mention the complete shortage of a contemporary domain name administration user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a vast inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Drawback Number Four: Many login locations (min two, max 3)

How about the necessity for another login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting service provider. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction system (particularly invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting company is making use of, the ardent clients can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration tool; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel sections to get acquainted with... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them quickly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting vendors:

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