cPanel Hosting Explanation

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the present web hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which provides an enormous amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing strictly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market supply one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are only a regular guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200k website hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names across the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present web hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly fulfilled most web hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience Number 1: A moronic domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be very careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the server, since they all are located 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 located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain name)

Are you becoming confused? We unquestionably are!

Negative Side Number 2: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The email folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly enhance their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too gravely.

Weakness Number 3: A sheer deficiency of domain manipulation sections

Do we have to bring up the utter lack of a contemporary domain manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a big inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Drawback No.4: Multiple login places (min 2, max three)

How about the demand for an extra login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting service provider. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (especially developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the earnest customers can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: 120+ web hosting Control Panel departments to learn... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better learn them rapidly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting suppliers:

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