cPanel Hosting Description

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on today's website hosting market are supplied by a quite inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to annual money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which generates a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing precisely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire hosting marketplace furnish strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200k "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply an average person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 website hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands around the world will offer you literally the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on today's hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative 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 perhaps met most website hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number One: A stupid domain folder system

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain 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 domains, please. Examine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

Are you becoming disorientated? We undeniably are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The very same mail folder system

The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly strengthen their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too harshly.

Negative Point Number 3: A complete absence of domain management user interfaces

Do we have to bring up the utter lack of a contemporary domain name administration GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois information, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a considerable drawback. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Disadvantage No.4: Multiple login places (min two, maximum three)

What about the need for another login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration software solution? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting vendor. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing tool (especially tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is utilizing, the devoted users can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain management software solution; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience Number Five: 120+ website hosting Control Panel sections to become acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the CP. It's a superb idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better grasp them briskly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting service providers:

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