What Does cPanel Website Hosting Represent?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing exactly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting market furnish one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are only an ordinary fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brand names around the world will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the current website hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably satisfied all hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament Number 1: A ludicrous domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete 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 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. Discover for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you growing bewildered? We undoubtedly are!

Downside No.2: The same e-mail folder configuration

The mail folder arrangement on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly enhance their belief in God when handling the email folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too badly.

Weak Side Number Three: An utter absence of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we have to refer to the complete lack of a modern domain name administration user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" tool at all. That's a great weakness. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Point Number 4: Multiple user login locations (min two, maximum three)

What about the need for an extra login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration section? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting firm. Occasionally, based on the billing transaction platform (principally invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the earnest customers can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing/domain administration platform; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Predicament No.5: More than 120 CP areas to pick up... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them fast... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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