What Does cPanel Hosting Signify?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on today's web hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized business segment, which furnishes a huge quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying absolutely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market offer strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200,000 "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary bloke who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names around the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present website hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably answered all hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number One: A foolish domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

Are you getting baffled? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Sign No.2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly fortify their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too badly.

Predicament No.3: An entire absence of domain manipulation menus

Do we have to bring up the total absence of a modern domain name management menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" interface at all. That's a gigantic weakness. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Predicament Number Four: Numerous user login places (min 2, max three)

How about the demand for an additional login to utilize the invoicing, domain and tech support administration software? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting company. Now and then, based on the billing transaction system (principally tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting vendor is using, the eager users can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management software; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP menus to become acquainted with... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the CP. It's a fine idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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