What Precisely is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offers on the present-day web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies an enormous amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing precisely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace supply precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200,000 "Web Hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The Web Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an ordinary chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names all over the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on today's website hosting market is... Period.

The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel Web Hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly fulfilled most website hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be very careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you growing disorientated? We surely are!

Downside Number Two: The same email folder setup

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly enhance their belief in God when managing the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too harshly.

Problem Number 3: An entire lack of domain management options

Do we need to point out the thorough lack of a modern domain name administration menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois information, shield the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a big downside. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Side No.4: Multiple login locations (minimum two, max three)

How about the demand for another login to avail of the billing transaction, domain and tech support management interface? 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 billing tool (especially tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting company is using, the avid customers can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration tool; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: More than 120 web hosting CP departments to pick up... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting corporations:

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