Description of cPanel Hosting

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which generates an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing one and the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market furnish strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only a normal bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k web hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands in the world will give you the same cPanel CP and platform, dubbed differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the current web hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly answered most web hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point Number 1: A foolish domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

Are you growing puzzled? We positively are!

Drawback Number 2: The same electronic mail folder system

The mail folder configuration on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too badly.

Drawback No.3: An utter absence of domain name administration GUIs

Do we have to mention the sheer absence of a modern domain manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois info, protect the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" section at all. That's a gigantic weakness. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Point Number Four: Numerous login places (min two, max 3)

How about the demand for another login to access the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration system? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting company. Occasionally, depending on the billing system (especially meant for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting vendor is making use of, the earnest users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management section; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number Five: 120+ CP sections to become familiar with... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's quite impertinent 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 are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...