cPanel Hosting Defined

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the current web hosting marketplace are generated by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which provides an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying exactly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace offer the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/hosting CP choice. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200k "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a regular bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k web hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brands around the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps met all web hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point Number 1: A foolish domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder system is:

Are you getting puzzled? We doubtlessly are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to botch things up too fatally.

Drawback No.3: An entire absence of domain name manipulation tools

Do we have to mention the utter absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a considerable inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Shortcoming No.4: Multiple user login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the need for an additional login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration interface? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting service provider. Occasionally, depending on the billing platform (principally intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting service provider is availing of, the eager customers can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing/domain name management tool; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Downside No.5: 120+ website hosting Control Panel departments to grasp... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better pick them up briskly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting suppliers:

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