cPanel Hosting Explanation

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Hosting offerings on the present website hosting market are generated by a very inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to annual money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which provides an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying precisely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market provide literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

200,000 "Hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Assume you are only an ordinary person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names in the world will offer you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present-day hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The Hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel Hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps covered most website hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect No.1: A dumb domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the server, because they all are placed 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. Determine for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you growing disorientated? We certainly are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The very same mail folder system

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too gravely.

Drawback Number 3: An absolute shortage of domain name administration tools

Do we have to point out the utter deficiency of a contemporary domain name management interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois information, protect the Whois details, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a huge weakness. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Negative Sign Number 4: Many user login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the need for an additional login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and tech support management software platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Hosting distributor. Now and then, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (particularly designed for cPanel only) the cPanel Hosting service provider is making use of, the keen customers can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing/domain name management user interface; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: 120+ Control Panel sections to become acquainted with... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better memorize them swiftly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting vendors:

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