cPanel Website Hosting Description

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the present web hosting market are generated by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which provides a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace offer one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a normal guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and online portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 web hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names around the world will give you the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present website hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly answered all web hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign No.1: A laughable domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, 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 web hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain)
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 nonplussed? We undoubtedly are!

Weakness Number Two: The same mail folder structure

The mail folder structure on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too gravely.

Downside No.3: A thorough absence of domain manipulation tools

Do we need to cite the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain management tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois info, protect the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" tool at all. That's a huge disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...

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

How about the necessity for an additional login to use the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting vendor. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction system (particularly designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting provider is availing of, the eager users can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP menus to become familiar with... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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