cPanel Website Hosting Explained

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the current website hosting market are supplied by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which generates an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying absolutely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting market furnish the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely one 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, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an ordinary chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands across the world will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably fulfilled most website hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number One: A laughable domain folder system

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are created 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you becoming baffled? We undoubtedly are!

Weak Side Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder configuration

The email folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too harshly.

Weakness Number 3: An utter shortage of domain administration sections

Do we need to cite the absolute absence of a contemporary domain manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" interface at all. That's a major drawback. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Point Number Four: Multiple user login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the necessity for another login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and technical support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting firm. Sometimes, based on the invoicing transaction tool (principally tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting provider is utilizing, the earnest customers can end up with two extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain administration menu; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than 120 hosting Control Panel departments to get acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a great idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting service providers:

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