Description of cPanel Hosting

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the present web hosting market are supplied by a quite insignificant marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which provides a vast number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace offer the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an average person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on today's web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps fulfilled all website hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side Number One: A moronic domain name folder system

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next 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 erase on the web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain 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. Check for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you becoming nonplussed? We absolutely are!

Predicament Number Two: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The email folder arrangement on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly enhance their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too irreparably.

Disadvantage Number 3: A total lack of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we need to cite the complete deficiency of a modern domain administration user interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a gigantic problem. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Disadvantage Number Four: Many user login locations (minimum two, max three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the billing, domain name and tech support management software solution? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting firm. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction system (principally made for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting supplier is using, the earnest clients can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to learn... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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