cPanel Website Hosting Defined

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on the contemporary hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying absolutely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace offer precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

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

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only a normal person who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names worldwide will offer you the very same cPanel Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on today's web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably fulfilled most web hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point Number One: A laughable domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you becoming baffled? We absolutely are!

Drawback Number Two: The same mail folder system

The mail folder arrangement on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly fortify their belief in God when handling the email folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too gravely.

Disadvantage Number Three: An absolute shortage of domain name administration interfaces

Do we have to point out the sheer deficiency of a modern domain management tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a vast problem. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Weak Side No.4: Numerous user login locations (min two, maximum three)

What about the need for another login to use the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration section? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting firm. Sometimes, based on the invoicing tool (especially intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting company is availing of, the earnest customers can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain management user interface; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Weak Side No.5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel departments to become familiar with... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, 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 too...