cPanel Web Hosting Description

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present-day web hosting market are supplied by a quite insignificant business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing exactly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting market furnish strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/Control Panel choice. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are only a regular chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k website hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands in the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel CP and platform, dubbed differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the contemporary web hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an immense 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 web hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps covered all web hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you getting disorientated? We surely are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The very same e-mail folder system

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly enhance their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too badly.

Disadvantage Number Three: An absolute deficiency of domain management tools

Do we need to point out the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain administration GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a colossal weakness. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Point Number Four: Multiple login places (min 2, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management software? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting vendor. Now and then, based on the invoice transaction tool (principally created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the avid users can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration section; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel areas to become familiar with... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to learn each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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