What Does cPanel Web Hosting Denote?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel hosting offers on the present hosting marketplace are furnished by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which furnishes a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing literally the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace offer the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/Control Panel choice. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only a normal person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k web hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brand names all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on today's website hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably covered most website hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number One: A moronic domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located 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. Discover for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you getting confused? We certainly are!

Problem Number 2: The very same email folder system

The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly enhance their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Negative Sign No.3: A sheer deficiency of domain manipulation user interfaces

Do we need to refer to the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain administration interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a mammoth downside. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Drawback Number 4: Multiple login places (minimum 2, max three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to use the billing transaction, domain and tech support management section? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting firm. At times, based on the invoicing platform (principally invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting vendor is making use of, the avid customers can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing/domain administration menu; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP menus to learn... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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