cPanel Web Hosting Explanation

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the current web hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small business niche, which furnishes a great quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing strictly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market furnish the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200,000 "website hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are only a regular person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k website hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names across the world will offer you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present website hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably covered all website hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming No.1: An idiotic domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra cautious not to remove completely 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 very easy to remove on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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 attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you growing bewildered? We surely are!

Negative Aspect No.2: The same electronic mail folder structure

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

Negative Point Number Three: A complete lack of domain administration sections

Do we have to cite the sheer absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a major problem. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Shortcoming Number 4: Many login places (minimum two, max 3)

How about the necessity for another login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and tech support management section? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting service provider. Sometimes, depending on the billing system (especially built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting firm is making use of, the keen clients can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: 120+ website hosting Control Panel sections to grasp... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better learn them fast... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting distributors:

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