Description of cPanel Web Hosting

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel hosting offerings on the present web hosting market are generated by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which provides a vast amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering one and the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting market offer precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an average bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands around the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably answered all website hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number One: A foolish domain folder structure

If you have two or more domains, however, be very attentive not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the web hosting server, since 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you becoming perplexed? We absolutely are!

Negative Side No.2: The same electronic mail folder system

The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Problem No.3: A complete shortage of domain name management GUIs

Do we have to cite the sheer shortage of a contemporary domain manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" menu at all. That's a considerable predicament. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Weak Side Number Four: Multiple login places (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the necessity for another login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration software solution? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting provider. Now and then, on the basis of the billing system (particularly tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting distributor is availing of, the enthusiastic users can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing/domain administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty Control Panel menus to get acquainted with... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to learn each of them. And you'd better get to know them quickly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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