What Does cPanel Web Hosting Denote?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the present website hosting market are generated by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which supplies a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing exactly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace offer one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only an ordinary person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200,000 website hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names around the world will offer you the very same cPanel CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present-day web hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly answered all website hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience Number One: A ludicrous domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated 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 good cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you getting confused? We undoubtedly are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The same email folder structure

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly fortify their belief in God when handling the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too fatally.

Weak Point No.3: An utter deficiency of domain manipulation GUIs

Do we need to refer to the complete lack of a modern domain name management menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois info, protect the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a major shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Disadvantage Number 4: Many user login places (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the need for another login to use the billing, domain name and technical support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing transaction platform (particularly devised for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting supplier is using, the ardent clients can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration user interface; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP menus to learn... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting providers:

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