cPanel Web Hosting Explanation

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel Web Hosting offers on today's web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which supplies an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing absolutely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace offer one and the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is simply one 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 percent, remark that one...

200k "Web Hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The Web Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a regular fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k web hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands all over the world will give you strictly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present web hosting market is... Period.

The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel Web Hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably covered all web hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number One: A dumb domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous 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 erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

Are you growing puzzled? We surely are!

Negative Aspect No.2: The very same mail folder arrangement

The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly strengthen their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too gravely.

Negative Aspect Number Three: An absolute absence of domain administration sections

Do we need to point out the absolute shortage of a modern domain name management menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a mammoth shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Disadvantage Number Four: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the demand for another login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration user interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Web Hosting vendor. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (especially invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting provider is using, the avid clients can end up with two extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Predicament No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel menus to grasp... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better memorize them swiftly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...