cPanel Web Hosting Description

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting market are generated by a quite insubstantial business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small business segment, which provides an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing literally the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace provide one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a normal fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web pages. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200,000 web hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps covered most web hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament No.1: A moronic domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be very cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder setup 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)
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 growing bewildered? We surely are!

Inconvenience Number Two: The same electronic mail folder structure

The mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly fortify their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too seriously.

Drawback Number Three: An absolute deficiency of domain name management menus

Do we need to refer to the sheer deficiency of a modern domain name administration GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a considerable disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Side Number Four: Multiple user login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the demand for another login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration software solution? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting service provider. Sometimes, based on the invoice transaction system (principally conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting provider is using, the eager users can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel menus to learn... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the CP. It's a superb idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting firms:

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