cPanel Hosting Description

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the contemporary hosting market are supplied by a quite insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which provides an enormous quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing literally the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace supply precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an average person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brands worldwide will give you the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the present-day hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps covered most web hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign Number 1: A laughable domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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. See for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you becoming perplexed? We positively are!

Predicament Number Two: The same mail folder system

The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly strengthen their faith in God when managing the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too severely.

Problem Number 3: An utter absence of domain manipulation menus

Do we have to mention the entire absence of a modern domain administration GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a colossal downside. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Disadvantage Number Four: Numerous user login locations (min 2, maximum three)

What about the need for an extra login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting corporation. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (especially made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting vendor is availing of, the earnest users can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain management menu; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Weakness Number 5: More than 120 hosting CP menus to learn... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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