cPanel Website Hosting Description

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering absolutely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market provide one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a normal fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can select? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brands around the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present website hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps answered all web hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming No.1: A laughable domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra careful not to erase completely 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 quite simple to erase on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you becoming nonplussed? We unquestionably are!

Drawback No.2: The very same electronic mail folder structure

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly fortify their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Problem Number 3: A total lack of domain name manipulation GUIs

Do we need to mention the entire deficiency of a modern domain manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" user interface at all. That's an enormous weakness. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Negative Side Number 4: Multiple login locations (min two, maximum 3)

What about the need for an extra login to use the invoicing, domain and technical support administration software? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting supplier. Occasionally, based on the invoicing tool (especially developed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the ardent users can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel departments to learn... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to learn each of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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