cPanel Hosting Description

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting marketplace are provided by a very insubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which generates a great amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing one and the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market furnish exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/CP alternative. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a regular fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 website hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands across the world will give you the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably fulfilled most web hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness No.1: A stupid domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the hosting server, since 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 located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder system is:

Are you getting baffled? We undoubtedly are!

Negative Side Number 2: The very same e-mail folder setup

The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too badly.

Shortcoming Number Three: A total deficiency of domain name management menus

Do we have to mention the total deficiency of a modern domain administration user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a great disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Negative Sign Number Four: Numerous login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to use the billing, domain and tech support administration section? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting company. At times, based on the billing transaction system (particularly built for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting vendor is availing of, the eager customers can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain name administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Predicament No.5: More than 120 CP departments to learn... fast

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...