What Does cPanel Hosting Signify?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based Hosting offerings on the present hosting market are generated by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small marketing niche, which furnishes an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace supply strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "Hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 website hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names across the world will give you the very same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel Hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly covered all web hosting industry prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point Number 1: A ludicrous domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub 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 remove on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you growing puzzled? We definitely are!

Weakness Number Two: The same electronic mail folder setup

The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly enhance their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Drawback Number 3: An absolute lack of domain manipulation sections

Do we need to refer to the sheer shortage of a contemporary domain manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" menu at all. That's a mammoth weakness. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Problem Number Four: Multiple user login places (min two, max 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration GUI? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Hosting firm. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (principally tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Hosting distributor is making use of, the ardent customers can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain management software; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number 5: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel areas to memorize... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better memorize them swiftly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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