Description of cPanel Website Hosting

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting market are generated by a very insignificant business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which furnishes a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering literally the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace supply the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are merely a normal person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands in the world will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the contemporary hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably covered all web hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect No.1: An idiotic domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be very cautious not to erase fully 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 domain names are quite simple to remove on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you getting puzzled? We positively are!

Negative Sign No.2: The very same email folder arrangement

The email folder arrangement on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too seriously.

Negative Side No.3: A total deficiency of domain name administration interfaces

Do we have to mention the sheer lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" section at all. That's an immense predicament. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Downside No.4: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the demand for another login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting company. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction system (principally meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting supplier is making use of, the zealous clients can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain administration interface; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel menus to pick up... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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