What Does cPanel Hosting Denote?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the present-day web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which provides a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing absolutely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace supply absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "website hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different hosting brands across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on today's web hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly answered all web hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number 1: A ludicrous domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular 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 remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder system is:

Are you getting disorientated? We definitely are!

Negative Point Number 2: The same mail folder setup

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly enhance their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too harshly.

Weak Side Number Three: An absolute deficiency of domain administration interfaces

Do we need to point out the absolute absence of a contemporary domain name administration tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois details, secure the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a major inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and technical support management user interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting supplier. Sometimes, depending on the invoice transaction system (principally conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting supplier is utilizing, the ardent customers can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration tool; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel menus to grasp... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to learn each of them. And you'd better get to know them quickly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting companies:

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