cPanel Hosting Clarified

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the present web hosting marketplace are generated by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which supplies an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet providing the very same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace supply the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are only an average fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brand names in the world will give you precisely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly satisfied most web hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage No.1: A foolish domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the web server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you growing confused? We surely are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The same e-mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly fortify their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too irreparably.

Weakness Number 3: A thorough lack of domain name administration tools

Do we have to bring up the utter absence of a modern domain management menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois info, protect the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a colossal drawback. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Predicament No.4: Numerous user login places (min two, maximum 3)

What about the need for another login to access the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration section? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting company. Sometimes, based on the invoice transaction tool (especially devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is using, the earnest users can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to memorize... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them swiftly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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