What Does cPanel Hosting Denote?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel hosting offers on today's web hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying strictly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace offer the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200k "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a regular fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web pages. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brand names across the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the present-day hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably met most website hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number 1: An idiotic domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you growing nonplussed? We positively are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The same mail folder structure

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too badly.

Weakness No.3: A total absence of domain administration interfaces

Do we have to bring up the sheer absence of a contemporary domain name management interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" interface at all. That's an enormous predicament. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Shortcoming Number 4: Multiple login locations (min two, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration menu? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting company. Sometimes, depending on the billing tool (particularly built for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting provider is utilizing, the eager customers can end up with two extra logins (1: the billing/domain name management interface; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Disadvantage No.5: More than 120 web hosting CP menus to memorize... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting suppliers:

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