cPanel Hosting Defined

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting market are furnished by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which generates a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing strictly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace offer strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

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

The web hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an ordinary fellow who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and websites. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can select? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands around the world will give you literally the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on today's web hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps met most web hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number 1: A moronic domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the 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 name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you becoming puzzled? We absolutely are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The same electronic mail folder system

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly strengthen their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too seriously.

Inconvenience Number 3: A thorough lack of domain administration interfaces

Do we have to mention the entire lack of a contemporary domain management user interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a big predicament. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Side No.4: Numerous login places (min two, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management section? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting corporation. Now and then, based on the invoicing platform (especially meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the devoted users can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing/domain management system; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Problem No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to memorize... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting vendors:

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