cPanel Web Hosting Explained

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting market are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which generates an enormous quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering absolutely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace furnish strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200,000 "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a regular person who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names around the world will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on today's hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly satisfied all web hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side Number One: A ludicrous domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra careful not to delete completely 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 domains are quite easy to erase on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

Are you growing baffled? We doubtlessly are!

Inconvenience Number Two: The same e-mail folder setup

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too badly.

Negative Point Number Three: A total deficiency of domain management user interfaces

Do we have to cite the utter absence of a modern domain administration GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois information, shield the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" menu at all. That's a gigantic shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Weakness Number 4: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the billing, domain and tech support management system? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting vendor. At times, based on the invoicing transaction system (particularly built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the eager users can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Weakness No.5: 120+ CP sections to get familiar with... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 menus inside the CP. It's a great idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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