What Does cPanel Web Hosting Represent?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on today's website hosting marketplace are generated by a very insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which provides a vast number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering exactly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace offer one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only a normal fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 website hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands around the world will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the contemporary hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably answered most web hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number One: A stupid domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to remove entirely 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are located 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 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. Examine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain)

Are you growing puzzled? We certainly are!

Weakness Number 2: The same email folder setup

The email folder structure on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly reinforce their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too severely.

Problem Number Three: An utter lack of domain name administration tools

Do we have to bring up the entire deficiency of a modern domain name management interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" menu at all. That's a major downside. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Negative Side No.4: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, max three)

What about the demand for another login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management system? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting firm. Sometimes, based on the invoicing system (principally built for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting firm is utilizing, the avid users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the billing/domain name administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel menus to pick up... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the hosting CP. It's a superb idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting corporations:

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