cPanel Website Hosting Description

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the present website hosting marketplace are generated by a very insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which provides a great quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing one and the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market offer precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a normal bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names worldwide will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on today's web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly covered all website hosting market preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage No.1: An idiotic domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located 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. Examine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder system is:

Are you getting confused? We positively are!

Negative Aspect No.2: The very same mail folder setup

The mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly strengthen their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too fatally.

Disadvantage Number 3: A total shortage of domain name management GUIs

Do we have to refer to the absolute absence of a modern domain management GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a considerable weakness. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Problem Number Four: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the necessity for another login to access the invoicing, domain and technical support administration user interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting company. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction system (particularly made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the zealous users can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain name administration software platform; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Downside Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel menus to get familiar with... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the CP. It's an excellent idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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