cPanel Website Hosting Explanation

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the present web hosting market are supplied by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering the very same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market supply the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/hosting CP option. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a regular fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brands all over the world will offer you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly met all website hosting market prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side Number One: An imbecilic domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be very careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the server, since 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 name is a folder situated 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. Decide for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you becoming bewildered? We absolutely are!

Disadvantage No.2: The same mail folder arrangement

The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly reinforce their belief in God when handling the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too irreparably.

Drawback No.3: An utter shortage of domain name administration sections

Do we have to mention the total deficiency of a contemporary domain administration user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" interface at all. That's a great predicament. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Side Number Four: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the necessity for an additional login to use the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration software? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting service provider. At times, depending on the invoice transaction platform (principally created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the earnest clients can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing/domain name management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty hosting CP departments to learn... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's excessively 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 aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...