cPanel Hosting Explanation

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offers on today's web hosting market are supplied by a very insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which supplies a great number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting market supply precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just one single 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 2 percent, note that one...

200k "hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are only an ordinary guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k web hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names all over the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably met all website hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point No.1: A moronic domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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. Observe for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

Are you becoming confused? We unquestionably are!

Negative Side Number Two: The very same mail folder configuration

The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too irreparably.

Weak Point Number Three: A thorough shortage of domain name management tools

Do we have to cite the sheer deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a huge predicament. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Weak Point No.4: Numerous login places (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the demand for another login to use the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management section? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting service provider. At times, based on the billing transaction system (principally conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting firm is making use of, the keen users can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration platform; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Predicament No.5: 120+ website hosting Control Panel menus to memorize... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better grasp them promptly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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