cPanel Web Hosting Description

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the present web hosting market are provided by a very insubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which provides a great number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing the very same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting market supply the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are only a normal guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 website hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names in the world will give you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably fulfilled most website hosting market preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number One: A moronic domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder setup is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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)
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 name)
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 getting perplexed? We positively are!

Weak Side Number Two: The very same mail folder structure

The email folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly strengthen their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to mess things up too fatally.

Negative Sign No.3: An absolute deficiency of domain management tools

Do we have to bring up the thorough absence of a contemporary domain name administration interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" user interface at all. That's an immense shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Weakness Number Four: Multiple login places (minimum 2, max three)

What about the need for an extra login to avail of the billing, domain and tech support administration GUI? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting service provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (particularly devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is availing of, the zealous clients can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing/domain name management section; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty CP menus to become familiar with... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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