What Does cPanel Website Hosting Denote?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the present website hosting market are provided by a very insubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which provides a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing the very same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace supply the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200k "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an ordinary bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brand names around the world will give you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on today's website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps covered most web hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign No.1: A dumb domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to delete entirely 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 easy to remove on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

Are you becoming puzzled? We definitely are!

Weak Point No.2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too fatally.

Problem Number 3: An entire absence of domain name manipulation interfaces

Do we need to point out the total shortage of a contemporary domain name administration tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" tool at all. That's a mammoth weakness. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Side Number 4: Many user login places (min 2, max three)

How about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoicing, domain and technical support management GUI? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting service provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing system (especially conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting provider is using, the keen customers can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel departments to grasp... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting providers:

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