cPanel Web Hosting Description

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the present web hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which generates a vast number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying exactly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace supply absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200k "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an ordinary bloke who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names in the world will give you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps covered most hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point No.1: A stupid domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent 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 server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, 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 domain names, please. See for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you growing bewildered? We surely are!

Drawback No.2: The same email folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly fortify their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too irreparably.

Negative Sign Number Three: An entire absence of domain name management tools

Do we need to cite the entire lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a vast shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Disadvantage No.4: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the necessity for another login to use the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration software? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting distributor. Now and then, based on the invoicing tool (particularly meant for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting provider is availing of, the avid clients can end up with two extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration platform; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage No.5: 120+ hosting CP sections to pick up... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a superb idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them swiftly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting distributors:

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