cPanel Hosting Explanation

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on the current website hosting marketplace are generated by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which generates a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering strictly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market provide the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an average guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web pages. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brand names around the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a huge stroke 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 pluses and minuses of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably answered all hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point Number One: A moronic domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder setup is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain name)

Are you getting perplexed? We undeniably are!

Negative Point Number Two: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly increase their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too harshly.

Negative Point No.3: A total deficiency of domain name management sections

Do we need to bring up the complete shortage of a contemporary domain manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" tool at all. That's an immense problem. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Disadvantage Number 4: Multiple login places (min two, maximum three)

How about the demand for another login to use the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management software platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting firm. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (especially made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting vendor is making use of, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number 5: 120+ website hosting Control Panel areas to get to know... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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