cPanel Hosting Description

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on today's website hosting market are furnished by a very insubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies a vast number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing precisely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting market offer exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only a regular bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 website hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names all over the world will give you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly met all hosting business demands. 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 domain names...

Predicament Number 1: A foolish domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular 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 delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you growing confused? We undoubtedly are!

Drawback No.2: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too severely.

Shortcoming No.3: A total deficiency of domain name administration GUIs

Do we need to cite the thorough absence of a modern domain manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" user interface at all. That's an enormous problem. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Drawback Number Four: Multiple user login locations (min two, maximum 3)

What about the need for another login to use the billing, domain name and tech support administration GUI? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting company. At times, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (principally developed for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting provider is utilizing, the avid users can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name administration software solution; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel sections to grasp... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ areas inside the Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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