cPanel Web Hosting Description

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the present hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying literally the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market furnish one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a regular person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k web hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands around the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present web hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly covered most web hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side No.1: A moronic domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located 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. See for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

Are you getting confused? We certainly are!

Predicament Number Two: The same electronic mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too severely.

Weak Point Number 3: A sheer deficiency of domain name administration options

Do we need to point out the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" menu at all. That's a major downside. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Inconvenience Number 4: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, max three)

How about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration tool? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting provider. At times, based on the billing system (principally conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting supplier is using, the eager customers can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Problem Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel departments to learn... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them swiftly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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