Description of cPanel Web Hosting

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on today's web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates a great number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing exactly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire hosting market offer one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/CP option. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only a regular chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brand names in the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the current website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably covered most website hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you becoming perplexed? We categorically are!

Problem Number Two: The same e-mail folder structure

The email folder arrangement on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly increase their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too fatally.

Weak Side Number Three: A complete deficiency of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we need to mention the thorough deficiency of a modern domain manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a big disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Problem Number 4: Many login locations (min 2, max three)

How about the demand for an additional login to avail of the billing, domain and technical support administration interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting service provider. Sometimes, depending on the invoice transaction system (especially developed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the avid clients can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management GUI; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: More than 120 web hosting CP areas to become familiar with... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a great idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting companies:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...