cPanel Web Hosting Description

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the present-day web hosting market are furnished by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which generates a great amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying absolutely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace offer absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200k "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a regular fellow who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names in the world will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the current website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably fulfilled all website hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you getting baffled? We clearly are!

Weak Side Number 2: The very same e-mail folder system

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly strengthen their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too seriously.

Weak Point Number Three: An utter lack of domain name management menus

Do we need to cite the absolute absence of a contemporary domain manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an immense shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Negative Point Number Four: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the need for an extra login to access the billing, domain name and technical support management interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting distributor. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing system (especially built for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting distributor is using, the enthusiastic users can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain name management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel sections to become familiar with... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting corporations:

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