What Does cPanel Hosting Represent?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Hosting offerings on today's hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which furnishes a great number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing strictly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the whole hosting market furnish exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200k "Hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just a normal fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web pages. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 website hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands worldwide will give you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on today's hosting market is... Period.

The Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel Hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly covered most web hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point No.1: A ludicrous domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to remove completely 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). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you getting confused? We unquestionably are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The same e-mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too gravely.

Shortcoming Number 3: A thorough lack of domain management sections

Do we have to point out the total deficiency of a modern domain manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a great downside. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Problem Number Four: Many login places (min 2, max three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and tech support administration software platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Hosting service provider. At times, based on the billing system (especially designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel Hosting provider is utilizing, the eager users can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing/domain management software solution; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: 120+ web hosting CP departments to become acquainted with... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting service providers:

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