What Does cPanel Hosting Denote?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offers on the current web hosting market are furnished by a quite insignificant business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which generates an enormous number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire hosting marketplace provide exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only a single 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, mind that one...

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

The website hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a regular person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brand names around the world will give you the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present-day website hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly met most web hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number 1: A moronic domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be very cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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 domains, please. Discover for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

Are you growing confused? We categorically are!

Disadvantage Number Two: The very same mail folder system

The e-mail folder configuration on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly increase their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too irreparably.

Inconvenience Number 3: A total deficiency of domain management sections

Do we have to cite the sheer deficiency of a modern domain administration tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" tool at all. That's a big disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Negative Aspect No.4: Many login locations (min 2, max 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management section? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting distributor. Now and then, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (particularly made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting company is utilizing, the keen users can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel departments to get acquainted with... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting companies:

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