cPanel Hosting Description

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present website hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which furnishes a vast number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying one and the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the whole website hosting market furnish the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an average fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site development processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web pages. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different hosting brands worldwide will offer you the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the current website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly met most web hosting market demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage No.1: A foolish domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated 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. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you getting bewildered? We unquestionably are!

Inconvenience Number Two: The same e-mail folder system

The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly enhance their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to muck things up too fatally.

Negative Side Number Three: A thorough absence of domain manipulation GUIs

Do we have to mention the absolute deficiency of a modern domain name administration GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois details, shield the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" menu at all. That's a big drawback. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Inconvenience Number Four: Numerous login places (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the need for an additional login to access the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting supplier. Now and then, based on the invoicing platform (principally invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is utilizing, the keen customers can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel menus to learn... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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