cPanel Website Hosting Defined

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized business segment, which furnishes a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing one and the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting market offer strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "Website Hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The Website Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are only a normal guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands around the world will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the current web hosting market is... Full stop.

The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps fulfilled all web hosting market requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side Number 1: A dumb domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the web server, because they all are located 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. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you becoming perplexed? We definitely are!

Weak Side Number Two: The same e-mail folder setup

The e-mail folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly strengthen their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too fatally.

Negative Side No.3: An absolute shortage of domain management menus

Do we have to cite the thorough shortage of a modern domain name administration platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" section at all. That's a considerable shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Weak Side Number 4: Numerous login places (min two, max 3)

What about the need for an additional login to use the invoicing, domain and tech support management software solution? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Website Hosting provider. At times, based on the billing transaction tool (especially built for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting service provider is using, the avid customers can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain management software; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Shortcoming No.5: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel sections to grasp... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a great idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them quickly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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