Description of cPanel Hosting

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the present website hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which furnishes a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet offering literally the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace supply absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/CP option. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a normal guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k website hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names across the world will offer you the same cPanel CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on today's website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly met most web hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number 1: A foolish domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra attentive not to remove completely 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 quite simple to erase on the server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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 delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder system is:

Are you becoming puzzled? We doubtlessly are!

Downside Number Two: The very same email folder structure

The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too harshly.

Negative Side Number Three: An absolute lack of domain administration menus

Do we have to mention the thorough shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" section at all. That's an immense downside. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Problem Number Four: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the need for an extra login to use the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting service provider. At times, on the basis of the invoicing tool (particularly intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting distributor is using, the zealous clients can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain name management system; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to become acquainted with... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them swiftly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting vendors:

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