Explanation of cPanel Web Hosting

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offerings on the present web hosting market are provided by a very insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the entire website hosting market furnish precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200,000 "Web Hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The Web Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can select? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k website hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands around the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the contemporary web hosting market is... Period.

The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel Web Hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps covered all website hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side No.1: A laughable domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known 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. Discover for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you growing bewildered? We doubtlessly are!

Downside Number 2: The same electronic mail folder system

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too fatally.

Drawback No.3: A sheer lack of domain manipulation menus

Do we need to cite the complete deficiency of a modern domain manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a great problem. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Weak Side Number Four: Multiple login places (minimum two, max three)

How about the necessity for another login to access the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Web Hosting vendor. Now and then, depending on the billing transaction platform (especially built for cPanel solely) the cPanel Web Hosting service provider is availing of, the earnest users can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Downside Number Five: 120+ web hosting CP sections to get to know... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them swiftly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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