What Does cPanel Web Hosting Stand for?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting market are generated by a very insubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which generates a big number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing precisely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace offer one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority 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 ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands across the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the present web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably met all hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point Number 1: A ludicrous domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to erase fully 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 domain names are quite simple to delete on the server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you growing bewildered? We certainly are!

Weak Point No.2: The same e-mail folder system

The mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too severely.

Negative Point Number 3: A complete absence of domain name management tools

Do we need to bring up the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a great disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Predicament No.4: Multiple login places (min two, max 3)

How about the need for another login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting vendor. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction platform (especially invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the avid customers can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management platform; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Drawback No.5: More than 120 CP sections to become acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them fast... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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