cPanel Web Hosting Defined

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the current web hosting market are generated by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small marketing niche, which generates an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing the very same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole hosting marketplace supply one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an average guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k web hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique hosting brands around the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present-day web hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps answered most website hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming Number 1: A stupid domain name folder structure

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

Are you growing confused? We categorically are!

Weak Point Number 2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The email folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too badly.

Predicament Number 3: A sheer deficiency of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we need to mention the thorough lack of a contemporary domain administration GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a major problem. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Weakness Number Four: Multiple login places (minimum 2, max three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to access the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting corporation. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (especially developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting supplier is using, the ardent users can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: More than 120 CP areas to memorize... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better get to know them quickly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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