What Indeed is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on the current web hosting market are provided by a very insubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which generates a great quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing one and the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace offer the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/CP choice. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200,000 "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a regular guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web sites. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names around the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly answered all hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number One: A laughable domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder system is:

Are you getting disorientated? We undeniably are!

Drawback Number Two: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too irreparably.

Weakness Number Three: A thorough shortage of domain administration interfaces

Do we need to point out the absolute deficiency of a modern domain name management platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a considerable inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Downside No.4: Many user login places (minimum two, max 3)

How about the need for an extra login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and tech support management software solution? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting service provider. At times, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (principally devised for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting corporation is utilizing, the devoted users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Negative Sign Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel departments to get to know... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting corporations:

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