cPanel Website Hosting Explained

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the present-day hosting market are provided by a very insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which furnishes a big amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace offer precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...

200,000 "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are just a regular person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands in the world will give you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the current web hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably answered most hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point Number One: A foolish domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the server, because they all are created 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you getting confused? We clearly are!

Disadvantage Number Two: The very same e-mail folder system

The mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly increase their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too fatally.

Negative Side Number Three: An absolute lack of domain manipulation user interfaces

Do we need to bring up the total lack of a contemporary domain manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a colossal problem. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Weak Point No.4: Numerous login places (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration system? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting distributor. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (particularly designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting vendor is making use of, the keen customers can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel departments to get to know... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...