What Precisely is cPanel Hosting?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the present-day web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which furnishes a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering absolutely the same solutions: 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 whole hosting market furnish precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

200k "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a normal guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names across the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably satisfied most website hosting market requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side Number 1: A ludicrous domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra attentive not to remove fully 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you getting puzzled? We positively are!

Weak Side No.2: The same electronic mail folder system

The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly strengthen their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too seriously.

Downside No.3: An utter absence of domain name manipulation menus

Do we need to point out the utter lack of a modern domain administration platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a colossal weakness. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Negative Point Number Four: Multiple login locations (min two, max 3)

How about the necessity for an extra login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management software platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting service provider. At times, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (especially developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting firm is utilizing, the avid customers can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing/domain name management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP areas to get acquainted with... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting firms:

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