What In Fact is cPanel Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel Hosting offerings on the contemporary hosting market are furnished by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which furnishes a big amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying one and the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace provide one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is simply a single 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 two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "Hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a normal bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web pages. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names worldwide will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on today's web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly met all web hosting market preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming Number 1: A moronic domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains 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 popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you becoming perplexed? We absolutely are!

Negative Sign No.2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly enhance their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too fatally.

Negative Side No.3: A complete absence of domain management menus

Do we have to cite the utter lack of a contemporary domain name administration user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" menu at all. That's a mammoth problem. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Downside Number Four: Multiple login locations (min 2, max 3)

How about the need for an extra login to use the billing, domain name and tech support management tool? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Hosting corporation. Sometimes, depending on the billing tool (principally made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Hosting service provider is making use of, the enthusiastic users can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain name administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: More than 120 hosting CP departments to get to know... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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