What Does cPanel Web Hosting Stand for?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the present-day hosting market are furnished by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which furnishes a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing absolutely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting market supply one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The website hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a regular fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website development processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k web hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names around the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the current hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

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

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably satisfied most web hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament Number One: A stupid domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous 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 attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you becoming puzzled? We unquestionably are!

Negative Point Number 2: The very same mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly fortify their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too badly.

Negative Point No.3: An entire lack of domain name management GUIs

Do we have to mention the entire deficiency of a modern domain name management platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's an enormous downside. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Downside Number Four: Multiple login places (minimum 2, max three)

How about the demand for another login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management GUI? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting service provider. Now and then, based on the invoicing system (especially built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting corporation is using, the ardent users can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain name management software platform; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP sections to become familiar with... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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