cPanel Website Hosting Description

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the current website hosting marketplace are generated by a very unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which generates a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing one and the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the whole hosting marketplace provide one and the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/Control Panel option. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a regular fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names around the world will give you precisely the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

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

Inconvenience Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the web server, because 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you growing perplexed? We absolutely are!

Shortcoming No.2: The very same mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly increase their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too severely.

Drawback Number Three: A thorough lack of domain name management menus

Do we need to refer to the utter shortage of a contemporary domain name administration menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" section at all. That's a colossal predicament. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Negative Point No.4: Many user login places (min 2, max 3)

How about the need for an additional login to avail of the billing transaction, domain and technical support management interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting supplier. Occasionally, based on the invoicing transaction system (particularly intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the devoted clients can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Negative Point Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel areas to grasp... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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