cPanel Website Hosting Explained

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insignificant business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace offer exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a normal bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? 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 more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brands around the world will give you the same cPanel CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present-day website hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps answered most web hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem No.1: A stupid domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be very cautious not to erase fully 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 domain names are quite simple to erase on the server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you becoming nonplussed? We clearly are!

Drawback Number Two: The very same e-mail folder configuration

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly increase their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too badly.

Inconvenience Number Three: A total absence of domain manipulation menus

Do we need to mention the absolute lack of a modern domain name administration menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" interface at all. That's a big drawback. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Negative Sign No.4: Many user login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the demand for an extra login to access the billing transaction, domain and technical support management section? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting company. Now and then, based on the invoice transaction tool (principally meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting corporation is availing of, the eager users can end up with two extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain management software; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Problem No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP menus to memorize... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the CP. It's a wonderful idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them briskly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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