cPanel Website Hosting Clarified

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the current website hosting market are supplied by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which supplies a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing absolutely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting market supply strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "website hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an ordinary chap who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different hosting brand names all over the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on today's web hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps covered all web hosting market requirements. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very attentive not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain 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 domain names, please. Determine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

Are you becoming disorientated? We undeniably are!

Predicament Number Two: The very same mail folder setup

The email folder structure on the web server is literally 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 email folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too gravely.

Predicament No.3: A sheer lack of domain name manipulation GUIs

Do we need to mention the sheer shortage of a modern domain manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a major weakness. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Weak Point Number 4: Many user login places (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the demand for an additional login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management software solution? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting firm. At times, based on the invoicing platform (particularly developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting supplier is making use of, the ardent customers can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management software platform; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Predicament Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty CP sections to become acquainted with... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting suppliers:

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