cPanel Web Hosting Description

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on today's web hosting market are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small marketing niche, which furnishes a great amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering one and the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole web hosting market furnish exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200,000 "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are only a normal fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website development processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and online portals. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names in the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon 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 severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps fulfilled most web hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side No.1: A moronic domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder system 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 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 name)

Are you becoming perplexed? We clearly are!

Weakness No.2: The same e-mail folder configuration

The mail folder arrangement on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly enhance their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too badly.

Weakness Number Three: An utter deficiency of domain name manipulation GUIs

Do we have to point out the utter deficiency of a modern domain manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a colossal problem. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Shortcoming Number Four: Many login places (min two, max 3)

What about the necessity for another login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration GUI? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting corporation. Now and then, depending on the billing tool (particularly created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the enthusiastic users can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain management section; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Weak Side No.5: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel menus to pick up... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting corporations:

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