What Does cPanel Website Hosting Mean?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes a huge number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing absolutely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the entire hosting market supply precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a normal bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names all over the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly met all web hosting market requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number 1: A dumb domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, 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 server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

Are you getting nonplussed? We categorically are!

Weak Point Number 2: The very same mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly enhance their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too fatally.

Problem No.3: An absolute shortage of domain administration user interfaces

Do we need to refer to the complete lack of a modern domain manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois details, secure the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a major drawback. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Weakness Number 4: Many user login locations (minimum two, max three)

How about the need for an additional login to use the invoicing, domain and technical support management system? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting provider. Now and then, depending on the billing platform (principally devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the eager customers can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing/domain administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number 5: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel menus to become acquainted with... fast

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ departments inside the CP. It's a marvelous idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting providers:

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