What Does cPanel Web Hosting Signify?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which supplies a vast number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing the very same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market supply precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are only a regular bloke who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different hosting brands across the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel CP and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the current website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably answered all hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point Number 1: A stupid domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are set up 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. See for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you becoming nonplussed? We positively are!

Negative Side Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder setup

The mail folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly fortify their belief in God when handling the email folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too irreparably.

Shortcoming Number 3: A complete shortage of domain administration options

Do we need to refer to the utter lack of a modern domain name administration GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a mammoth problem. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Negative Side Number Four: Multiple user login locations (min 2, max three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to use the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration software platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting firm. Now and then, based on the billing tool (particularly devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting supplier is utilizing, the ardent clients can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain management interface; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting CP departments to grasp... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them fast... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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