cPanel Web Hosting Explained

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the present-day hosting market are generated by a very unsubstantial business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which provides an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing one and the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace supply literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is only one 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 2%, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a regular chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 web hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names around the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps answered all web hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number 1: A ludicrous domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely cautious not to delete 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). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you getting baffled? We definitely are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The same electronic mail folder setup

The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly enhance their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too badly.

Downside Number Three: An utter shortage of domain name administration sections

Do we have to refer to the total lack of a contemporary domain administration interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a huge predicament. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Inconvenience No.4: Numerous login locations (min 2, max three)

How about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management software solution? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting company. At times, depending on the billing transaction platform (principally developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting company is utilizing, the enthusiastic users can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management interface; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty Control Panel departments to pick up... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a great idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them swiftly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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