What Does cPanel Web Hosting Stand for?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on today's hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which generates a big amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting market provide one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an average guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting companies 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 across the world will give you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the current website hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps covered most website hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience No.1: A dumb domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra watchful not to remove 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 domain names are quite simple to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated 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. See for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you growing perplexed? We undeniably are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The very same e-mail folder setup

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly fortify their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too fatally.

Downside Number Three: A thorough deficiency of domain manipulation user interfaces

Do we need to bring up the absolute lack of a contemporary domain management interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a mammoth problem. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Sign Number Four: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the need for an additional login to make use of the billing, domain name and technical support management tool? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting corporation. Sometimes, based on the invoicing transaction tool (principally intended for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting service provider is utilizing, the eager users can wind up with two additional logins (1: the billing/domain administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Weakness No.5: More than 120 web hosting CP areas to become acquainted with... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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