Description of cPanel Website Hosting

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the current web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which furnishes an enormous amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying the very same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market offer strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for 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 200,000 web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "website hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are just a normal bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 website hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands worldwide will offer you literally the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, named differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the current web hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably fulfilled most web hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number 1: A laughable domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra careful not to erase completely 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the web server, because they all are created 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. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

Are you growing disorientated? We positively are!

Inconvenience No.2: The very same mail folder arrangement

The mail folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too seriously.

Shortcoming Number Three: An utter deficiency of domain name manipulation options

Do we need to refer to the complete lack of a contemporary domain name management interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a gigantic drawback. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Drawback Number 4: Numerous login places (min 2, max three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to use the billing, domain and tech support management software solution? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting firm. At times, depending on the invoice transaction tool (principally created for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting company is using, the eager clients can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel menus to get acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to learn each of them. And you'd better learn them swiftly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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