What Does cPanel Web Hosting Stand for?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present hosting market are generated by a quite inconsiderable business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which supplies a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering exactly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting market provide literally the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/hosting CP option. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200,000 "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an average chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names worldwide will offer you strictly the same cPanel CP and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the contemporary web hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly answered all website hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming Number One: A dumb domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you growing puzzled? We positively are!

Predicament No.2: The very same mail folder structure

The mail folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly strengthen their belief in God when handling the email folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Weak Side No.3: An utter lack of domain name manipulation interfaces

Do we have to bring up the utter absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a big downside. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Weak Point Number Four: Numerous login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the demand for another login to access the invoicing, domain and tech support administration GUI? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting vendor. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction system (principally meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the devoted clients can end up with two extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain management interface; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: 120+ website hosting CP sections to become familiar with... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting providers:

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