What Precisely is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offerings on the present website hosting market are provided by a very insubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which supplies an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering literally the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace provide exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. So, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "Website Hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The Website Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary chap who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands all over the world will give you strictly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on today's web hosting market is... Full stop.

The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably answered all website hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point No.1: A dumb domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you growing perplexed? We unquestionably are!

Problem Number Two: The very same email folder structure

The mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too fatally.

Negative Point No.3: A thorough shortage of domain name management options

Do we have to bring up the thorough shortage of a contemporary domain name administration user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" interface at all. That's a great drawback. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Downside No.4: Many login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for another login to make use of the invoicing, domain name and technical support management software platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Website Hosting distributor. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (especially tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting vendor is making use of, the keen users can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration system; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Problem Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to get familiar with... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a great idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better learn them swiftly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting service providers:

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