Description of cPanel Hosting

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the present web hosting marketplace are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which provides an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering literally the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the whole web hosting market supply absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200k "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an average person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the current hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably satisfied most web hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number One: A moronic domain folder structure

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you growing bewildered? We absolutely are!

Negative Point Number Two: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too severely.

Negative Sign Number 3: A total deficiency of domain name administration sections

Do we need to point out the absolute deficiency of a modern domain name administration platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" section at all. That's a vast problem. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Predicament No.4: Many login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the need for an additional login to access the billing transaction, domain and tech support management software solution? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting distributor. At times, based on the billing platform (particularly created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the avid customers can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain name administration system; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel menus to pick up... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ menus inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting companies:

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