What Does cPanel Web Hosting Mean?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insignificant business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes a big number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace provide exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only a normal bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands worldwide will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present-day hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably met all website hosting market demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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 domains, please. Observe for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder system is:

Are you growing puzzled? We undeniably are!

Weak Side Number Two: The very same email folder structure

The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to mess things up too severely.

Inconvenience Number Three: A thorough absence of domain name management sections

Do we have to point out the thorough lack of a modern domain name manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a considerable shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Predicament No.4: Multiple user login places (min 2, maximum three)

What about the necessity for another login to access the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management menu? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting supplier. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (particularly created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting service provider is making use of, the enthusiastic clients can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the billing/domain management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Weakness No.5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel sections to pick up... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting companies:

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