cPanel Hosting Clarified

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting market are generated by a very inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small marketing niche, which supplies a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing literally the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the whole hosting market offer literally the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200k "web hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a normal person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brands across the world will offer you the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the current website hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps fulfilled all web hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

Are you getting nonplussed? We unquestionably are!

Negative Aspect Number Two: The very same mail folder system

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly increase their faith in God when managing the email folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too harshly.

Predicament No.3: An absolute deficiency of domain name manipulation tools

Do we have to cite the total shortage of a contemporary domain name administration tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a colossal disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Weakness Number 4: Many user login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for another login to access the billing transaction, domain and technical support management system? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting provider. Occasionally, depending on the billing transaction system (particularly built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the zealous clients can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain name administration section; 2: the ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Weak Side No.5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel menus to get to know... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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