What Does cPanel Hosting Represent?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on today's web hosting market are provided by a quite insubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which furnishes a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing strictly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting market provide strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an ordinary bloke who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 website hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names around the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the current web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably covered most website hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side Number 1: A laughable domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you getting disorientated? We surely are!

Negative Point Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder structure on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too seriously.

Drawback Number Three: An utter lack of domain name manipulation interfaces

Do we need to point out the sheer lack of a contemporary domain name administration menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a vast drawback. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Negative Sign Number Four: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the billing, domain and technical support management user interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting distributor. At times, based on the billing platform (particularly designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the eager customers can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Weakness No.5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel menus to grasp... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them swiftly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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