cPanel Website Hosting Description

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the contemporary hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which provides a vast quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying exactly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace provide one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a normal guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 website hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names in the world will give you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present-day hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably fulfilled most web hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side Number One: A stupid domain folder system

If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra watchful not to erase entirely 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 domains are quite simple to remove on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain 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. See for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain)

Are you growing perplexed? We unquestionably are!

Weak Side Number 2: The very same e-mail folder configuration

The mail folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Negative Side No.3: An utter deficiency of domain name management options

Do we need to refer to the complete deficiency of a modern domain name management platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" interface at all. That's a considerable disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Predicament Number Four: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the demand for another login to access the invoicing, domain and technical support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting supplier. At times, based on the invoicing tool (principally developed for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting distributor is using, the keen clients can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management software; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Problem Number Five: More than 120 hosting Control Panel departments to get familiar with... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...