Description of cPanel Web Hosting

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offerings on today's website hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which furnishes a great quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying the very same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace provide the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200k "Web Hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The Web Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only an average bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brands around the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present-day web hosting market is... Period.

The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel Web Hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly answered most web hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number One: A laughable domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous 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 domains, please. Determine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you growing puzzled? We clearly are!

Problem No.2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly strengthen their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too fatally.

Negative Aspect No.3: An utter deficiency of domain administration tools

Do we have to refer to the complete shortage of a modern domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" tool at all. That's an enormous inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Weakness No.4: Numerous login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the demand for an additional login to access the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management tool? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Web Hosting vendor. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing platform (principally designed for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting vendor is making use of, the enthusiastic clients can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the billing/domain name management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP sections to grasp... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting distributors:

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