Description of cPanel Hosting

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present website hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insignificant business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small business segment, which furnishes a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing strictly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace furnish strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

200,000 "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are merely an ordinary person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website development processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands around the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the present web hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps covered all website hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point Number 1: A laughable domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the hosting server, because they all are set up 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 delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how fantastic 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 getting bewildered? We undeniably are!

Negative Side Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly strengthen their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Negative Aspect Number Three: A thorough lack of domain name manipulation menus

Do we have to cite the utter shortage of a modern domain management menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a gigantic inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Weakness Number Four: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the need for an extra login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management software platform? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting supplier. Occasionally, based on the invoice transaction system (especially tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the ardent users can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side No.5: More than 120 Control Panel sections to learn... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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