cPanel Web Hosting Description

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on today's hosting market are generated by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which provides a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace furnish literally the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...

200,000 "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply an average chap who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and websites. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names all over the world will offer you the very same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably covered most web hosting market preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number 1: An idiotic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very watchful not to erase completely 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are created 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 located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 name)
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)
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 getting perplexed? We undoubtedly are!

Disadvantage No.2: The same email folder system

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly fortify their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too irretrievably.

Disadvantage Number 3: A thorough absence of domain manipulation menus

Do we have to bring up the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a vast predicament. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Drawback No.4: Many user login locations (min two, max three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management section? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting supplier. Sometimes, depending on the billing transaction platform (especially meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting service provider is availing of, the ardent customers can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing/domain name administration system; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel sections to get acquainted with... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a great idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them fast... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting companies:

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