What Does cPanel Website Hosting Signify?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting market are furnished by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which provides a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing exactly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace supply literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a normal fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k web hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands worldwide will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on today's hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably covered all web hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number One: A foolish domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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 domains, please. Decide for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you growing perplexed? We clearly are!

Negative Point No.2: The very same mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly fortify their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too severely.

Downside Number 3: An entire shortage of domain name management GUIs

Do we need to bring up the absolute deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" interface at all. That's a gigantic weakness. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Weak Side Number 4: Numerous login locations (min two, maximum three)

How about the demand for an extra login to access the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management software? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting company. Sometimes, depending on the billing transaction system (especially devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is availing of, the keen clients can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration interface; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel departments to get to know... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a great idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting firms:

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