cPanel Hosting Description

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small business segment, which generates a vast number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace furnish precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

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

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an average fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web pages. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k website hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands all over the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present website hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

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

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly satisfied all web hosting industry demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside No.1: A stupid domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to 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 erase on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known 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 delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

Are you growing bewildered? We absolutely are!

Weakness No.2: The same mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly enhance their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too gravely.

Downside No.3: A total lack of domain name administration menus

Do we have to bring up the sheer deficiency of a modern domain name administration GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois information, protect the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a colossal weakness. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Downside No.4: Many user login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management software platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting firm. At times, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (especially devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the avid customers can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration GUI; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Weakness No.5: More than 120 web hosting CP departments to memorize... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to learn each of them. And you'd better memorize them swiftly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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