cPanel Web Hosting Revealed

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized business segment, which generates an immense number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing the very same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary fellow who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k website hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names all over the world will give you the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present website hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly answered all website hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign Number One: A dumb domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely watchful not to remove completely 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 easy to remove on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you getting bewildered? We absolutely are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The same e-mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly fortify their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too seriously.

Weak Side Number 3: An utter shortage of domain manipulation menus

Do we have to mention the entire deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a major disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Negative Point Number 4: Multiple user login places (minimum two, max three)

What about the demand for an additional login to use the billing, domain and tech support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting supplier. Occasionally, based on the invoice transaction platform (especially tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting provider is using, the earnest users can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain name administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel departments to get acquainted with... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting distributors:

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