cPanel Website Hosting Defined

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting market are supplied by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which generates a great quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing the very same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the whole web hosting market furnish one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200,000 "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a regular chap who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web pages. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can select? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k website hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names all over the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly met most web hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number 1: A foolish domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely watchful not to erase 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). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you becoming baffled? We clearly are!

Problem No.2: The very same mail folder setup

The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too harshly.

Weak Side Number Three: An utter absence of domain name administration menus

Do we have to bring up the total absence of a modern domain manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a mammoth weakness. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Weak Point Number 4: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, max three)

What about the demand for an extra login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration tool? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting supplier. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (especially tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the zealous customers can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain name administration user interface; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: 120+ website hosting CP departments to pick up... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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