Description of cPanel Hosting

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the present website hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which provides a vast number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing one and the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole hosting market furnish exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an ordinary bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web pages. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the present-day web hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly covered all web hosting market prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side Number 1: A foolish domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very 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 delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

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

Disadvantage No.2: The very same e-mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly increase their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too severely.

Disadvantage No.3: An absolute absence of domain management user interfaces

Do we have to mention the complete shortage of a modern domain name administration menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an enormous predicament. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Weakness No.4: Numerous login places (min two, max 3)

What about the necessity for another login to avail of the billing, domain and technical support administration software? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting supplier. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing tool (especially conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is using, the enthusiastic users can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration menu; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel areas to get familiar with... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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