What In Fact is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which furnishes a great amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing the very same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace supply strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are only a regular bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique hosting brand names in the world will give you the very same cPanel hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

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 fashionable and possibly satisfied most website hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number One: A stupid domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra attentive not to erase completely 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). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you getting confused? We doubtlessly are!

Weak Point Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder system

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too irretrievably.

Negative Aspect Number Three: A complete deficiency of domain management options

Do we need to cite the total shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" section at all. That's a huge shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Negative Point No.4: Multiple user login locations (min 2, max three)

How about the demand for an extra login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration user interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting provider. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing tool (especially tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the keen users can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel menus to grasp... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them fast... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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