What Does cPanel Hosting Mean?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insignificant marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which generates an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing exactly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace offer absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are only an average person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 website hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brand names all over the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present website hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps answered all web hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side Number One: A foolish domain folder setup

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

Are you growing nonplussed? We unquestionably are!

Problem No.2: The very same e-mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly increase their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too badly.

Disadvantage Number Three: An absolute deficiency of domain management tools

Do we have to point out the sheer absence of a modern domain manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" tool at all. That's a major downside. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Problem Number 4: Numerous user login locations (min 2, maximum three)

What about the demand for an additional login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration GUI? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting provider. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction platform (particularly developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting provider is using, the earnest users can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Shortcoming No.5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting CP sections to get acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...