Description of cPanel Hosting

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on today's web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which furnishes a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole hosting market provide literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

200k "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only an ordinary chap who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 website hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands around the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps fulfilled most web hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number One: A dumb domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names 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 name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

Are you growing confused? We unquestionably are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The same mail folder system

The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly fortify their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too irreparably.

Shortcoming Number 3: An absolute lack of domain name management user interfaces

Do we have to mention the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain administration GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a mammoth problem. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Negative Side Number 4: Many user login locations (min two, maximum 3)

How about the need for another login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting company. At times, based on the invoice transaction system (especially designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the ardent users can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Predicament No.5: More than 120 hosting Control Panel menus to become familiar with... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them fast... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting corporations:

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