cPanel Website Hosting Description

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting market are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which furnishes a huge quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing one and the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace supply the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an ordinary person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and online portals. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k web hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands across the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the current website hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps fulfilled most website hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name 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 name)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
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 growing baffled? We undoubtedly are!

Predicament No.2: The same electronic mail folder structure

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irretrievably.

Shortcoming Number 3: An absolute absence of domain name management interfaces

Do we have to cite the thorough lack of a contemporary domain name management user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" menu at all. That's a colossal predicament. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Inconvenience No.4: Numerous login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting distributor. Now and then, depending on the billing transaction tool (principally developed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the keen clients can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Predicament Number Five: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel menus to grasp... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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