Description of cPanel Web Hosting

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the present-day web hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which furnishes an immense number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying precisely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace furnish one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200k "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are just an ordinary guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brands around the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly fulfilled all web hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point No.1: An imbecilic domain folder system

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names 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 very famous 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 erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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 baffled? We certainly are!

Negative Aspect No.2: The very same electronic mail folder setup

The mail folder arrangement on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly fortify their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too gravely.

Negative Sign No.3: An absolute shortage of domain name management sections

Do we need to refer to the entire lack of a contemporary domain management menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois details, secure the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" section at all. That's a huge downside. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Sign No.4: Multiple login locations (min 2, max three)

What about the need for another login to use the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management software? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting corporation. Sometimes, based on the invoicing tool (principally invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting company is making use of, the avid clients can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management GUI; 2: the ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Disadvantage Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to become familiar with... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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