cPanel Website Hosting Explanation

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the current website hosting marketplace are supplied by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which provides an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing literally the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the entire web hosting market offer literally the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "web hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k website hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names across the world will give you literally the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on today's web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative points 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 possibly met all web hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point No.1: A laughable domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous 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. See for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you growing nonplussed? We categorically are!

Negative Side Number 2: The same mail folder arrangement

The mail folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too seriously.

Negative Side Number Three: A complete deficiency of domain administration GUIs

Do we have to refer to the sheer absence of a modern domain name management menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois information, shield the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" menu at all. That's a colossal predicament. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Problem Number 4: Numerous login locations (minimum two, max three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration menu? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting company. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (principally developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the earnest clients can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel areas to get acquainted with... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better learn them swiftly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting suppliers:

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