What Does cPanel Website Hosting Signify?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the current web hosting marketplace are provided by a very unsubstantial business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes a great quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying absolutely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace offer exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a regular guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names around the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the contemporary hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps satisfied all website hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience Number 1: A foolish domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous 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 erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

Are you growing nonplussed? We absolutely are!

Negative Side No.2: The same mail folder structure

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly enhance their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to muck things up too severely.

Problem Number 3: A thorough deficiency of domain name management tools

Do we need to bring up the sheer deficiency of a contemporary domain management GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" user interface at all. That's an enormous shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

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

How about the demand for an additional login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management menu? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting vendor. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (principally developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting corporation is using, the eager clients can end up with two additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration software platform; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP areas to grasp... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them swiftly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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