What Does cPanel Hosting Signify?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on today's web hosting market are furnished by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which provides a vast quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing absolutely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole hosting market offer one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200k "web hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only an average guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200,000 website hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands in the world will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the contemporary hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably answered all web hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number One: A laughable domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you growing confused? We clearly are!

Negative Aspect Number 2: The very same mail folder setup

The email folder structure on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly enhance their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too seriously.

Predicament No.3: A thorough absence of domain name administration menus

Do we need to cite the sheer deficiency of a modern domain management GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's an immense inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Negative Side No.4: Multiple user login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to use the billing transaction, domain and technical support management software? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting vendor. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (principally invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the avid customers can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Downside No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel menus to become acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up promptly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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