What Does cPanel Hosting Represent?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel hosting offers on the present website hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite inconsiderable business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which generates a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace provide exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200k "hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are only a regular person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 website hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands across the world will offer you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present-day web hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly fulfilled all web hosting industry demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number One: A dumb domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known 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 delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder system is:

Are you becoming bewildered? We categorically are!

Disadvantage No.2: The same email folder system

The mail folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly enhance their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too badly.

Negative Point Number Three: An absolute shortage of domain administration interfaces

Do we need to refer to the complete shortage of a contemporary domain management tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois info, secure the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" section at all. That's an enormous drawback. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Shortcoming Number Four: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, max three)

How about the need for an additional login to access the invoicing, domain name and technical support management tool? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting company. Now and then, depending on the billing transaction system (principally devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting provider is availing of, the zealous clients can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel areas to become familiar with... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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