What Does cPanel Web Hosting Represent?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offerings on the present web hosting market are furnished by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing the very same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting market provide precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200,000 "Web Hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The Web Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply an ordinary person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k website hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names all over the world will offer you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel Web Hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly satisfied all hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you becoming perplexed? We positively are!

Negative Point Number 2: The very same e-mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder structure on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly enhance their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too seriously.

Drawback Number 3: A sheer lack of domain name management GUIs

Do we have to mention the complete shortage of a contemporary domain administration menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois details, secure the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a major drawback. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Weak Side Number 4: Many user login locations (min two, maximum three)

How about the demand for an additional login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management GUI? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Web Hosting supplier. Occasionally, depending on the billing platform (principally invented for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting corporation is availing of, the enthusiastic users can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration system; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP areas to memorize... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a great idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting companies:

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