cPanel Website Hosting Description

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which generates an enormous number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying one and the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace supply literally the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an average person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k website hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names across the world will give you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on today's web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly covered most web hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming Number 1: A foolish domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the hosting server, since they all are situated 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 erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you becoming perplexed? We doubtlessly are!

Downside No.2: The same e-mail folder configuration

The email folder configuration on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly strengthen their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too gravely.

Downside Number Three: An absolute deficiency of domain name administration menus

Do we need to mention the total absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" interface at all. That's an immense weakness. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Weakness No.4: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration system? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting corporation. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (especially intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting supplier is availing of, the zealous customers can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration menu; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Point Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty CP sections to memorize... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them swiftly... That's very arrogant 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? Mind that one as well...