Explanation of cPanel Web Hosting

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on today's website hosting marketplace are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which generates a great number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering exactly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace provide absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/CP choice. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200,000 "hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are only an ordinary chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present-day web hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably covered most web hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number One: An idiotic domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder system is:

Are you getting bewildered? We absolutely are!

Downside No.2: The very same electronic mail folder system

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly reinforce their belief in God when managing the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too irreparably.

Negative Aspect No.3: A total shortage of domain name management interfaces

Do we need to bring up the thorough absence of a contemporary domain manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois information, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" interface at all. That's a major problem. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Side No.4: Multiple user login locations (minimum two, max three)

How about the demand for another login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting vendor. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction system (especially made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting vendor is availing of, the enthusiastic customers can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Weakness Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty Control Panel departments to pick up... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better learn them swiftly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting distributors:

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