cPanel Web Hosting Definition

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting market are supplied by a quite unsubstantial business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which provides a great number of different hébergement Web brand names, yet furnishing one and the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace offer absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Alors, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200,000 "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The website hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are merely an average chap who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domaines and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names across the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 dans 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably fulfilled all website hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domaine to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem No.1: A moronic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to remove entirely 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 erase on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite 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 remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you becoming confused? We categorically are!

Weakness No.2: The same electronic mail folder system

The mail folder configuration on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too fatally.

Drawback Number Three: A sheer shortage of domain management tools

Do we have to cite the total lack of a contemporary domain management platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois information, protect the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a considerable shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Drawback No.4: Multiple login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the invoicing, domain and technical support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting company. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing tool (principally created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting company is utilizing, the earnest customers can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration user interface; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: More than 120 CP menus to become familiar with... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up briskly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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