What Does cPanel Hosting Denote?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on the current website hosting market are furnished by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size business niche, which supplies a huge quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing exactly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market supply one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a normal chap who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k website hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names around the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps met most web hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side Number 1: A foolish domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be very cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain name)

Are you growing puzzled? We surely are!

Problem No.2: The very same mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly fortify their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Negative Point Number Three: A total deficiency of domain manipulation GUIs

Do we have to cite the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain administration interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a considerable drawback. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Downside Number 4: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the need for an additional login to avail of the billing transaction, domain and technical support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting supplier. Occasionally, depending on the billing tool (particularly tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting vendor is using, the avid clients can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management tool; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Weakness No.5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel sections to grasp... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting vendors:

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