Description of cPanel Hosting

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel website hosting offers on today's website hosting market are provided by a very insubstantial business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which supplies a big number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing strictly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market furnish one and the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "website hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary chap who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and websites. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brand names in the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the current website hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably covered all web hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side No.1: A laughable domain folder system

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the web hosting server, because 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 name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

Are you becoming nonplussed? We definitely are!

Negative Aspect Number 2: The same e-mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to botch things up too harshly.

Negative Aspect Number 3: A complete lack of domain name administration menus

Do we need to refer to the utter deficiency of a modern domain name administration tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois info, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a huge disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Many user login places (minimum two, max 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management user interface? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting supplier. Sometimes, depending on the invoice transaction platform (particularly built for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting provider is using, the zealous users can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration interface; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number Five: 120+ web hosting Control Panel areas to learn... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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