cPanel Website Hosting Description

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the current web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which provides an enormous amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying strictly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market supply strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/hosting CP option. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200k "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an average fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brands in the world will give you the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps satisfied most website hosting industry preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect No.1: A dumb domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent 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 quite 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 delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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 perplexed? We absolutely are!

Problem No.2: The very same e-mail folder configuration

The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly reinforce their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too harshly.

Negative Aspect No.3: An utter absence of domain management user interfaces

Do we have to point out the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois information, protect the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a colossal shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Problem No.4: Numerous user login places (min two, maximum 3)

How about the need for an extra login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration GUI? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting vendor. At times, based on the billing tool (principally conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the keen users can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing/domain name administration system; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Side No.5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP sections to pick up... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting firms:

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