cPanel Website Hosting Description

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the current web hosting market are furnished by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which generates an enormous number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing precisely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish one and the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200k "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The website hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are just a normal guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brand names worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the current website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably covered all web hosting industry preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side Number 1: A moronic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely cautious not to erase completely 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 quite easy to delete on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you growing bewildered? We surely are!

Weak Point Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder system

The email folder structure on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too fatally.

Weak Point Number Three: An absolute lack of domain name administration options

Do we have to bring up the entire absence of a contemporary domain name management GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's an enormous drawback. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Inconvenience Number 4: Many user login locations (min 2, maximum three)

How about the need for an extra login to use the billing, domain name and technical support administration menu? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting distributor. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing platform (principally conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting provider is making use of, the avid customers can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number Five: 120+ website hosting Control Panel areas to get familiar with... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better get to know them promptly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting providers:

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...