Description of cPanel Website Hosting

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel hosting offerings on the present website hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies a huge quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering the very same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market offer absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an average guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k website hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the current website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps met all website hosting market prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament Number One: A foolish domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the web server, since they all are placed 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you growing confused? We unquestionably are!

Predicament Number 2: The very same e-mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder structure on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly strengthen their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too irretrievably.

Negative Point Number Three: An utter absence of domain manipulation GUIs

Do we have to mention the absolute deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois info, protect the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a mammoth drawback. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Weak Side Number 4: Many user login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the demand for an additional login to use the billing, domain name and technical support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting company. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing tool (particularly invented for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting provider is availing of, the avid users can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain management section; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Weakness Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP departments to get familiar with... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 menus inside the hosting CP. It's a great idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting service providers:

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