Description of cPanel Hosting

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on the present-day web hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which furnishes a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing exactly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market provide the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an ordinary guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and websites. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can select? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands worldwide will give you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly fulfilled all website hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside No.1: A foolish domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very careful not to erase entirely 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known 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 attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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)
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 becoming nonplussed? We definitely are!

Weak Side Number Two: The very same mail folder structure

The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly reinforce their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too seriously.

Negative Aspect Number Three: A total absence of domain name manipulation interfaces

Do we have to bring up the complete lack of a modern domain manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a gigantic inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Numerous login places (min two, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management system? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting vendor. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing system (especially invented for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting distributor is using, the earnest customers can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration software platform; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel sections to become familiar with... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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