What Does cPanel Hosting Represent?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on today's web hosting market are furnished by a very unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which furnishes a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing absolutely the same services: 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 market supply one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200,000 "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only a regular guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web sites. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200,000 web hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably covered all website hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number One: A moronic domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent 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, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very 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 attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

Are you becoming disorientated? We undoubtedly are!

Negative Point No.2: The very same electronic mail folder configuration

The mail folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly reinforce their belief in God when managing the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too fatally.

Negative Side Number Three: A sheer shortage of domain name administration sections

Do we have to cite the thorough absence of a contemporary domain management GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" tool at all. That's a gigantic weakness. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Sign Number Four: Numerous login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for another login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration GUI? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting vendor. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing system (principally built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting firm is using, the avid clients can end up with two extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management system; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Downside Number Five: 120+ web hosting CP sections to get familiar with... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them fast... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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