Description of cPanel Web Hosting

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are provided by a very unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which furnishes an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering absolutely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole hosting marketplace provide strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is simply 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 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 web hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different hosting brand names across the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on today's website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably covered most website hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number One: A foolish domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra watchful 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 very easy to remove on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite 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 erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain)

Are you growing bewildered? We categorically are!

Weak Side No.2: The very same mail folder setup

The mail folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly reinforce their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too seriously.

Disadvantage No.3: A thorough deficiency of domain management GUIs

Do we have to bring up the total absence of a modern domain administration user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a major downside. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Negative Sign Number Four: Multiple login locations (min 2, max 3)

How about the need for an extra login to use the billing transaction, domain and tech support management software platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting vendor. Sometimes, based on the invoicing system (principally devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting corporation is using, the ardent users can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain management software; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP sections to memorize... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them swiftly... That's extremely insolent 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...