What Does cPanel Web Hosting Represent?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present-day hosting marketplace are generated by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing segment, which provides a vast number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing absolutely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market offer one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an ordinary person who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k website hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brands across the world will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the contemporary website hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps answered all web hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number 1: A moronic domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely attentive not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you growing disorientated? We unquestionably are!

Weak Side No.2: The very same e-mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too irreparably.

Weakness No.3: An absolute lack of domain manipulation interfaces

Do we need to refer to the sheer deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" menu at all. That's a gigantic shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

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

How about the need for another login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management software solution? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting vendor. Now and then, based on the billing system (principally intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the keen customers can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Disadvantage No.5: 120+ web hosting CP areas to memorize... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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