cPanel Website Hosting Explanation

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the present web hosting marketplace are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-scale business segment, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering literally the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market offer absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200,000 "web hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands across the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on today's website hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably answered most website hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain 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. Discover for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

Are you becoming confused? We clearly are!

Negative Sign No.2: The same e-mail folder structure

The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too badly.

Negative Aspect No.3: A total shortage of domain administration menus

Do we have to point out the utter lack of a modern domain name manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a colossal problem. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Predicament Number Four: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration section? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting distributor. At times, on the basis of the billing transaction system (particularly created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the devoted customers can end up with two additional login locations (1: the billing/domain management section; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP areas to learn... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them fast... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting distributors:

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