cPanel Hosting Explained

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel Hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which furnishes an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying strictly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market provide precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/CP option. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "Hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a regular person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website development processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brand names in the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the present web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The Hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based Hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps met all website hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number 1: A stupid domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you growing nonplussed? We undoubtedly are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The very same mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly increase their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too badly.

Predicament Number Three: A total deficiency of domain manipulation tools

Do we need to cite the total shortage of a modern domain name manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a major shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Weak Side Number Four: Numerous login locations (min two, max three)

How about the necessity for another login to access the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration user interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Hosting company. Now and then, based on the billing transaction tool (principally invented for cPanel only) the cPanel Hosting company is availing of, the keen customers can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain administration section; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Weakness No.5: More than one hundred and twenty CP departments to pick up... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting providers:

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