cPanel Web Hosting Description

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel hosting offers on today's website hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which provides a great number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing absolutely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole hosting market provide literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200k "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an ordinary person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brands worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present-day website hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps satisfied all web hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number One: A ludicrous domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the web server, since 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 domains, please. Discover for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you becoming perplexed? We categorically are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly reinforce their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to mess things up too badly.

Downside Number Three: A thorough deficiency of domain name administration menus

Do we have to cite the absolute deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" menu at all. That's a big disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Drawback No.4: Many login places (minimum two, max three)

What about the demand for an extra login to make use of the billing, domain name and tech support management tool? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting company. At times, depending on the billing transaction tool (principally built for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting service provider is availing of, the earnest clients can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management section; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP sections to memorize... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ departments inside the Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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