cPanel Website Hosting Description

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting market are furnished by a very insubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying strictly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole hosting market offer exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200,000 "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a regular person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names in the world will give you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on today's website hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably met most website hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming Number 1: A dumb domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite 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 attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how fabulous 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 name)

Are you growing bewildered? We undeniably are!

Weak Side Number 2: The very same mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too fatally.

Shortcoming Number 3: An absolute lack of domain management sections

Do we have to refer to the absolute shortage of a contemporary domain administration menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois details, shield the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" interface at all. That's an enormous shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

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

What about the demand for an additional login to access the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting distributor. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction system (particularly intended for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is availing of, the devoted users can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain management GUI; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Weakness Number 5: 120+ website hosting Control Panel sections to get acquainted with... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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