cPanel Hosting Defined

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on today's website hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insignificant marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which supplies a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying strictly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting market offer one and the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a normal bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands worldwide will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the present web hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly covered all web hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number 1: A laughable domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed 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. Verify for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you growing nonplussed? We positively are!

Problem Number 2: The same mail folder configuration

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly reinforce their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too seriously.

Weak Side No.3: A complete absence of domain manipulation GUIs

Do we have to bring up the thorough shortage of a modern domain management tool - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a colossal problem. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

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

What about the need for another login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration GUI? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting service provider. Now and then, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (particularly conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting company is using, the zealous clients can end up with two additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain administration tool; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel sections to become familiar with... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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