cPanel Hosting Explanation

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on the present-day web hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insignificant business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized business segment, which supplies an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing exactly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace supply one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/CP option. So, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200,000 "hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are only a normal fellow who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands worldwide will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present-day hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably fulfilled most web hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside No.1: An idiotic domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra attentive not to erase 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 domains are quite simple to remove on the web hosting 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 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. Observe for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you becoming bewildered? We doubtlessly are!

Weak Point No.2: The very same e-mail folder configuration

The mail folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly increase their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too harshly.

Negative Side No.3: A complete lack of domain name management interfaces

Do we have to cite the entire lack of a contemporary domain name management menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois details, secure the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a gigantic problem. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Weakness Number 4: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, max three)

How about the demand for another login to utilize the billing, domain name and technical support management software platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting corporation. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction platform (particularly built for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting vendor is making use of, the earnest customers can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: 120+ website hosting Control Panel sections to get to know... fast

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ menus inside the CP. It's a terrific idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...