cPanel Hosting Description

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel website hosting offers on the current web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized business segment, which supplies an enormous quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering precisely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole hosting market provide one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200k "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a regular fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k website hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands worldwide will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably satisfied most website hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number 1: A dumb domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name 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 name)
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 absolutely are!

Predicament Number Two: The same email folder system

The electronic mail folder structure on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly increase their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too badly.

Negative Sign No.3: An entire shortage of domain administration user interfaces

Do we have to cite the absolute deficiency of a contemporary domain name management GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a major downside. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Drawback No.4: Many login locations (min 2, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the invoicing, domain and tech support management software? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting service provider. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing tool (principally built for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting supplier is making use of, the zealous users can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration software platform; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP areas to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the Control Panel. It's a great idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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