What Does cPanel Website Hosting Signify?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the current web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which provides a huge number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering absolutely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace supply strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

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

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an average fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and online portals. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands all over the world will give you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on today's web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps satisfied most web hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number One: A dumb domain folder system

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the server, since 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 placed 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. Examine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

Are you becoming disorientated? We categorically are!

Predicament Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The email folder structure on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly increase their belief in God when handling the email folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too seriously.

Inconvenience Number Three: An entire deficiency of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we have to refer to the complete lack of a modern domain manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a considerable shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Drawback Number Four: Numerous user login places (min two, maximum three)

How about the necessity for another login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management user interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting vendor. Occasionally, based on the billing transaction platform (principally developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting company is making use of, the keen clients can wind up with two additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration software solution; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Side No.5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP sections to become familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them promptly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting firms:

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