Explanation of cPanel Website Hosting

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offerings on the present web hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying absolutely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole web hosting market supply absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "Website Hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The Website Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an ordinary guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k website hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names all over the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel Website Hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably satisfied most website hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number One: A foolish domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, 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 web 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain. 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 structure is:

Are you growing confused? We definitely are!

Weakness No.2: The very same e-mail folder system

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly increase their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too severely.

Weakness Number Three: A complete absence of domain manipulation interfaces

Do we have to mention the thorough lack of a modern domain name administration platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a gigantic weakness. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Disadvantage Number 4: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the necessity for an additional login to access the invoicing, domain and technical support administration software? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Website Hosting vendor. At times, on the basis of the billing transaction system (particularly designed for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting firm is utilizing, the enthusiastic users can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Disadvantage No.5: More than 120 Control Panel menus to learn... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting providers:

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