Explanation of cPanel Web Hosting

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on today's web hosting market are generated by a very insubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which provides an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing literally 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 website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market provide literally the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

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

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an ordinary guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k website hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different hosting brand names around the world will offer you literally the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the current website hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably satisfied most web hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside No.1: A moronic domain folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra attentive not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite 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 delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you growing confused? We unquestionably are!

Negative Side Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder system

The e-mail folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too badly.

Inconvenience No.3: A sheer shortage of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we need to mention the thorough shortage of a modern domain administration platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois information, protect the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" menu at all. That's a mammoth downside. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Inconvenience No.4: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the necessity for another login to make use of the invoicing, domain and tech support administration tool? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting supplier. Occasionally, based on the invoicing platform (especially developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting firm is utilizing, the eager clients can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration interface; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Disadvantage Number 5: More than 120 web hosting CP sections to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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