What Does cPanel Hosting Denote?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Hosting offers on the present web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insignificant marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which furnishes an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing literally the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace supply the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "Hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an average person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web pages. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands in the world will give you the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on today's web hosting market is... Full stop.

The Hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel Hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly covered all website hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness No.1: An imbecilic domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be very careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the hosting server, because they all are set up 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 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 domains, please. Examine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you becoming puzzled? We positively are!

Negative Point No.2: The very same email folder structure

The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly strengthen their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too fatally.

Weakness Number 3: A complete absence of domain name manipulation GUIs

Do we need to mention the utter lack of a contemporary domain administration user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a huge weakness. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Shortcoming Number Four: Multiple user login places (min 2, maximum three)

What about the demand for an extra login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management GUI? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Hosting vendor. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing tool (particularly designed for cPanel only) the cPanel Hosting vendor is availing of, the eager customers can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: More than one hundred and twenty CP departments to pick up... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a great idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting firms:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...