cPanel Web Hosting Description

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the present website hosting market are generated by a very inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which generates a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the whole hosting market provide one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200k "hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an ordinary bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands worldwide will give you literally the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the current hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably answered most web hosting industry preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback No.1: An idiotic domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed 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 good cPanel's domain name folder system is:

Are you becoming confused? We doubtlessly are!

Weak Point Number 2: The very same e-mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly enhance their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too seriously.

Inconvenience No.3: An entire shortage of domain manipulation tools

Do we need to mention the total absence of a modern domain name manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" tool at all. That's an enormous disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Negative Sign No.4: Many user login locations (minimum two, max 3)

How about the need for another login to access the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration GUI? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting corporation. Sometimes, based on the invoice transaction system (especially intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting service provider is making use of, the eager customers can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain administration software solution; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: 120+ hosting CP areas to pick up... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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