cPanel Hosting Explained

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel hosting offers on today's website hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to annual money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which provides a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying precisely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting market supply one and the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/Control Panel option. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200k "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are only a normal guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 website hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different hosting brand names around the world will give you strictly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably fulfilled all web hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point No.1: A dumb domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you growing disorientated? We undoubtedly are!

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

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly enhance their faith in God when handling the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Negative Point Number 3: A complete deficiency of domain administration tools

Do we need to bring up the sheer lack of a modern domain name administration interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a great drawback. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Negative Sign No.4: Multiple login places (min two, maximum three)

How about the demand for another login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration system? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting service provider. Occasionally, depending on the invoice transaction system (particularly made for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting service provider is using, the earnest users can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing/domain management software; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Problem Number Five: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel menus to learn... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them promptly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting vendors:

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