cPanel Website Hosting Explained

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are supplied by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes a huge quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying strictly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the entire website hosting market provide precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200k "Website Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The Website Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a normal chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k website hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names around the world will offer you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel Website Hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps answered all web hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new 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 situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you getting disorientated? We categorically are!

Inconvenience No.2: The same mail folder structure

The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly fortify their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too harshly.

Negative Side Number Three: A thorough deficiency of domain name manipulation tools

Do we have to refer to the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois details, shield the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" interface at all. That's a major shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Shortcoming Number Four: Multiple login places (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the demand for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management system? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Website Hosting supplier. Now and then, depending on the billing transaction platform (principally built for cPanel solely) the cPanel Website Hosting provider is using, the earnest customers can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management interface; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel sections to memorize... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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