cPanel Hosting Description

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on today's website hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which generates a big amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying one and the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the whole website hosting market provide the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200,000 "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an average fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web pages. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k website hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on today's hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably covered 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...

Downside Number 1: A foolish domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder setup 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 name)

Are you getting bewildered? We absolutely are!

Weakness Number Two: The same email folder system

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly enhance their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too fatally.

Drawback No.3: An utter shortage of domain name manipulation interfaces

Do we need to cite the thorough absence of a modern domain name administration GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois info, protect the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a major problem. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

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

How about the need for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration user interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting service provider. Sometimes, depending on the billing system (particularly conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the devoted customers can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing/domain management platform; 2: the ticket support menu), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel departments to get to know... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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