Explanation of cPanel Hosting

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the current website hosting market are supplied by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which supplies a great number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering strictly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the whole hosting marketplace supply absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200,000 "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an average person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k website hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands around the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the current website hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably covered most web hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number One: A stupid domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you becoming perplexed? We absolutely are!

Inconvenience No.2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too seriously.

Disadvantage No.3: A complete absence of domain management sections

Do we need to point out the absolute shortage of a contemporary domain name management platform - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a considerable weakness. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Predicament No.4: Numerous login places (min two, maximum three)

How about the need for an additional login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration system? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting corporation. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (especially made for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting service provider is availing of, the devoted users can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage No.5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP menus to memorize... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a great idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting service providers:

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