What Does cPanel Web Hosting Stand for?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offerings on the contemporary hosting market are furnished by a very inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which furnishes an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering strictly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole hosting marketplace provide the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200k "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an ordinary bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brand names in the world will offer you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably met all web hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number 1: A moronic domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very attentive not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you becoming perplexed? We unquestionably are!

Problem Number Two: The very same e-mail folder setup

The mail folder structure on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too fatally.

Shortcoming No.3: An entire shortage of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we have to point out the entire absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a major drawback. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Side Number 4: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an extra login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management software? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting supplier. Occasionally, depending on the billing transaction platform (particularly invented for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting firm is utilizing, the zealous users can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration software; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: More than 120 CP departments to memorize... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the web hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better pick them up promptly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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