What Does cPanel Website Hosting Denote?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel hosting offers on the present-day web hosting market are furnished by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which provides an immense quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering literally the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting market furnish precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an average chap who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 website hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brands in the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the current website hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps satisfied all website hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number One: A moronic domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new 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 remove on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you becoming baffled? We certainly are!

Shortcoming No.2: The same mail folder structure

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly strengthen their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too gravely.

Negative Aspect Number Three: An entire deficiency of domain name management user interfaces

Do we have to bring up the absolute lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an enormous weakness. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Predicament Number 4: Numerous login places (minimum two, max 3)

How about the need for another login to use the billing, domain name and technical support administration menu? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting service provider. At times, depending on the invoicing tool (especially meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting vendor is availing of, the avid customers can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP areas to learn... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them swiftly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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