How cPanel Website Hosting Operates

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on today's website hosting market are supplied by a very insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which furnishes a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing the very same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the whole hosting market provide the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/CP choice. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only a regular person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k website hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brands in the world will give you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an enormous stroke 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 website hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps satisfied most web hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback No.1: A dumb domain name folder setup

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

Are you getting confused? We doubtlessly are!

Weakness Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too irreparably.

Disadvantage No.3: A sheer deficiency of domain name administration GUIs

Do we have to cite the entire absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" section at all. That's a big downside. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Predicament Number 4: Numerous login locations (min 2, max three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting supplier. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (especially created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting company is utilizing, the keen users can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration GUI; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Drawback No.5: More than a hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel departments to get acquainted with... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting corporations:

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