Description of cPanel Website Hosting

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on the present-day web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized business segment, which generates a great amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering exactly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace supply literally the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200k "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an ordinary fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands around the world will offer you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present-day web hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps answered most web hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside No.1: A laughable domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you growing puzzled? We absolutely are!

Negative Point Number 2: The same electronic mail folder structure

The email folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly fortify their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too severely.

Problem Number Three: An entire shortage of domain manipulation menus

Do we need to refer to the complete shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a vast predicament. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Negative Sign No.4: Numerous user login locations (min 2, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the billing, domain name and tech support administration section? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting service provider. Now and then, depending on the invoicing transaction system (principally made for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting distributor is utilizing, the eager users can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management section; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Weakness No.5: More than 120 web hosting CP menus to get familiar with... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the web hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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