What Does cPanel Hosting Stand for?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting market are generated by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies a vast number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing literally the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market provide absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, 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%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200k "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are only an ordinary person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web pages. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names worldwide will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the contemporary hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly fulfilled all web hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you becoming disorientated? We categorically are!

Weak Point Number 2: The same email folder setup

The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly strengthen their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too fatally.

Weak Point No.3: A thorough deficiency of domain management user interfaces

Do we have to refer to the entire absence of a contemporary domain manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois information, protect the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" tool at all. That's an immense inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Drawback No.4: Many user login locations (minimum two, max three)

What about the need for another login to use the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting service provider. At times, depending on the billing transaction tool (principally built for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting vendor is availing of, the eager users can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration interface; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel areas to memorize... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a great idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them fast... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting suppliers:

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...