Description of cPanel Website Hosting

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on today's website hosting marketplace are provided by a quite inconsiderable business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which furnishes a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing strictly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace supply exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/CP choice. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200,000 "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only a regular guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website development processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web sites. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands across the world will give you the very same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the current website hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably covered all web hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point Number 1: A dumb domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra careful not to delete 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 domains are quite simple to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you growing puzzled? We absolutely are!

Negative Side No.2: The very same e-mail folder system

The electronic mail folder structure on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly increase their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Inconvenience Number 3: An absolute absence of domain management menus

Do we have to bring up the total lack of a modern domain manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a colossal inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Inconvenience Number 4: Many login places (minimum two, max 3)

How about the need for another login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management system? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting distributor. At times, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (particularly intended for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting company is using, the keen customers can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel sections to learn... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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