What Does cPanel Website Hosting Stand for?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which generates a vast number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying absolutely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace provide precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an ordinary person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names around the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on today's web hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps covered all website hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number 1: A laughable domain folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

Are you growing confused? We categorically are!

Weakness Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder system

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly increase their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too fatally.

Weakness Number 3: An utter deficiency of domain name manipulation sections

Do we need to point out the thorough absence of a contemporary domain management user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a great weakness. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Disadvantage Number 4: Numerous user login places (minimum two, max three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting vendor. Sometimes, based on the billing transaction platform (principally designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the enthusiastic customers can end up with two extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel sections to grasp... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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