cPanel Website Hosting Description

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the current web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which generates a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market provide the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply an average chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 website hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on today's website hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably fulfilled all web hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness No.1: An idiotic domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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. Determine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

Are you growing puzzled? We surely are!

Disadvantage No.2: The very same email folder structure

The email folder structure on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly fortify their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too severely.

Negative Aspect Number Three: A thorough deficiency of domain manipulation options

Do we have to mention the utter deficiency of a modern domain name management interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a mammoth inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Downside Number 4: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the need for an additional login to use the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration menu? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting distributor. At times, depending on the billing transaction platform (especially devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting distributor is utilizing, the enthusiastic clients can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration menu; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Downside Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel areas to grasp... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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