cPanel Website Hosting Description

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting market are supplied by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which provides an enormous quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting market offer precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are only a normal guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 website hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brand names worldwide will give you the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the contemporary web hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps fulfilled all web hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain 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 domain names, please. Verify for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you becoming bewildered? We absolutely are!

Predicament Number 2: The same electronic mail folder system

The mail folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too irretrievably.

Inconvenience Number 3: An entire absence of domain name manipulation GUIs

Do we need to bring up the sheer deficiency of a modern domain management GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a considerable predicament. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Weak Side Number 4: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, max three)

What about the demand for an additional login to access the invoicing, domain and technical support management software solution? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting provider. At times, based on the invoicing transaction system (principally designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the ardent users can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration menu; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Sign Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel sections to become familiar with... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting companies:

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