cPanel Web Hosting Explanation

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offerings on the current website hosting market are generated by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes a great amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing precisely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting market provide the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

200k "Web Hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The Web Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a normal bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brand names in the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on today's web hosting market is... Full stop.

The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably fulfilled most website hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem No.1: A stupid domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known 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 attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you getting nonplussed? We definitely are!

Weakness No.2: The very same email folder configuration

The mail folder structure on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly fortify their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too gravely.

Disadvantage No.3: A thorough lack of domain name management menus

Do we have to cite the utter absence of a modern domain name administration tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a big disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Disadvantage Number Four: Multiple login places (min 2, max 3)

How about the demand for an extra login to use the invoicing, domain and technical support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Web Hosting company. Occasionally, based on the invoicing transaction tool (especially designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel Web Hosting provider is using, the ardent customers can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing/domain name management section; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP menus to become familiar with... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better grasp them quickly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting vendors:

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