cPanel Hosting Description

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the current web hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes an immense quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering literally the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole hosting marketplace supply one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

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

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an average fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site development processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web pages. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps met most web hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very cautious not to erase entirely 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 very easy to erase on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known 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 remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you growing perplexed? We undeniably are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The same electronic mail folder system

The e-mail folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly enhance their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too irreparably.

Disadvantage Number 3: A total shortage of domain administration menus

Do we have to cite the sheer absence of a contemporary domain manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's an immense predicament. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Disadvantage Number Four: Multiple user login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management section? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting service provider. At times, depending on the invoicing platform (principally made for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting service provider is making use of, the keen clients can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Weakness No.5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel areas to become familiar with... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better pick them up briskly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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