cPanel Hosting Description

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel website hosting offers on the present web hosting marketplace are provided by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which provides a great quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing the very same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace provide absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/CP choice. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200k "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website development processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k web hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different website hosting brands in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present-day web hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably covered most website hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament Number One: A moronic domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra careful not to erase 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 simple to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are created 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. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder system is:

Are you becoming perplexed? We definitely are!

Predicament Number Two: The same email folder configuration

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too irreparably.

Negative Sign Number Three: An entire lack of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we need to bring up the absolute lack of a modern domain administration tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an immense disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Problem Number 4: Many user login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the demand for an additional login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration system? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting company. At times, based on the billing platform (especially conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting service provider is availing of, the ardent users can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: More than 120 web hosting CP departments to become familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better pick them up briskly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting corporations:

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