cPanel Web Hosting Explained

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the contemporary hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which furnishes an enormous number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing precisely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace supply exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200,000 "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only an ordinary bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k web hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names in the world will give you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly covered most web hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very watchful not to erase entirely 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

Are you getting nonplussed? We absolutely are!

Problem Number 2: The very same e-mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too badly.

Negative Sign No.3: An absolute shortage of domain manipulation user interfaces

Do we have to bring up the total shortage of a contemporary domain administration GUI - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a big weakness. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Shortcoming Number Four: Multiple login places (min 2, max three)

How about the demand for an additional login to avail of the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting provider. At times, depending on the invoice transaction platform (especially designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is using, the enthusiastic customers can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain name administration tool; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Predicament Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP sections to learn... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the CP. It's a great idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting corporations:

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