Description of cPanel Web Hosting

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the current web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which provides a great quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting market furnish precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply an average guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and online portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200k website hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names across the world will give you precisely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present-day web hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably satisfied all website hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number One: A foolish domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra careful not to delete entirely 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). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)

Are you growing nonplussed? We categorically are!

Downside Number 2: The same electronic mail folder system

The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly fortify their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too fatally.

Negative Side No.3: A thorough shortage of domain name manipulation menus

Do we need to refer to the sheer absence of a modern domain name management interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a great disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Problem Number Four: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the demand for an additional login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration user interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting supplier. Sometimes, depending on the billing transaction platform (principally designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the ardent customers can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain management menu; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel departments to learn... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them swiftly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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