Explanation of cPanel Web Hosting

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on today's web hosting market are supplied by a quite insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small business niche, which furnishes a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing the very same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace provide one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200,000 "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are only an average guy who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands worldwide will offer you strictly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on today's 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 distributor is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably met most web hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side Number One: A stupid domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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 name)
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)

Are you growing nonplussed? We unquestionably are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The same electronic mail folder setup

The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly enhance their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Shortcoming Number Three: A thorough absence of domain name management menus

Do we need to refer to the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain administration menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" menu at all. That's a huge downside. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Weak Point Number 4: Numerous login locations (minimum two, max 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting corporation. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing transaction system (particularly intended for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting corporation is utilizing, the earnest customers can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration interface; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP sections to get familiar with... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a great idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting distributors:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...