cPanel Website Hosting Description

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on the current website hosting marketplace are generated by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which generates a great quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying one and the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market provide literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a normal guy who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site development processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web pages. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 website hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names around the world will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the current web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly satisfied all website hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience Number One: An idiotic domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you growing perplexed? We absolutely are!

Negative Point No.2: The very same mail folder structure

The mail folder configuration on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly fortify their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too harshly.

Weakness No.3: A total absence of domain name management interfaces

Do we need to point out the utter deficiency of a modern domain manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois info, protect the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a mammoth problem. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Weak Side Number Four: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the need for another login to use the invoicing, domain and technical support management platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting provider. Now and then, on the basis of the billing platform (principally invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting vendor is utilizing, the earnest clients can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing/domain administration interface; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: 120+ web hosting CP menus to grasp... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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