What Does cPanel Hosting Signify?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the contemporary hosting market are supplied by a very insignificant business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing absolutely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market provide literally the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

200,000 "hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an ordinary person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and websites. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can select? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brand names in the world will give you precisely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present web hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps satisfied most hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number One: A laughable domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very 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). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the web hosting 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 located 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 marvelous cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

Are you getting nonplussed? We clearly are!

Predicament Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder system

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly increase their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too gravely.

Negative Sign Number Three: A sheer lack of domain management menus

Do we have to bring up the utter absence of a contemporary domain name administration GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois info, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" section at all. That's a vast drawback. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Negative Aspect No.4: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, max three)

How about the need for an additional login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and tech support management software platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting company. Occasionally, depending on the billing platform (especially built for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting company is availing of, the earnest users can end up with two additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration interface; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP menus to memorize... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the CP. It's a superb idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them fast... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting firms:

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