What Indeed is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the current website hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offers on the entire web hosting market furnish the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary chap who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 website hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands around the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the contemporary web hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly answered most website hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number One: A laughable domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very careful not to delete entirely 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 domain names are quite simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you becoming confused? We definitely are!

Weakness No.2: The very same e-mail folder structure

The email folder structure on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly increase their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too gravely.

Downside Number 3: An utter absence of domain name administration GUIs

Do we need to refer to the utter lack of a modern domain name management GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois details, secure the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" tool at all. That's a gigantic predicament. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Weakness Number 4: Numerous user login locations (min 2, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting corporation. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing platform (particularly made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the zealous customers can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP areas to become acquainted with... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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