Description of cPanel Website Hosting

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offers on the present-day hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which furnishes an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing exactly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market provide precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an ordinary guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and websites. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k website hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands in the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present-day website hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably answered all website hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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 domain names, please. Examine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

Are you growing baffled? We absolutely are!

Weakness Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too irreparably.

Problem No.3: A thorough deficiency of domain management user interfaces

Do we need to mention the absolute shortage of a contemporary domain administration menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's an enormous predicament. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Point Number Four: Many login places (minimum two, max 3)

What about the demand for another login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration user interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting company. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction platform (particularly designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting vendor is making use of, the ardent clients can end up with two additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain management software solution; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Downside No.5: More than a hundred and twenty Control Panel areas to become familiar with... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting firms:

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