cPanel Website Hosting Description

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the current hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which furnishes a great number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering the very same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market supply absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200,000 "web hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an average person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and websites. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can select? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 website hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names in the world will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the contemporary website hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps answered all hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very attentive not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

Are you getting perplexed? We certainly are!

Predicament No.2: The same electronic mail folder structure

The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly strengthen their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too severely.

Disadvantage No.3: A thorough deficiency of domain management GUIs

Do we need to bring up the utter absence of a modern domain manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a colossal disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Problem Number 4: Many user login places (min two, max three)

How about the need for an additional login to utilize the billing, domain name and tech support management software solution? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting firm. Now and then, based on the billing transaction tool (particularly intended for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the devoted clients can wind up with two extra logins (1: the billing/domain name management section; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel sections to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better learn them swiftly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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