cPanel Website Hosting Clarified

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel Website Hosting offers on the present-day web hosting market are supplied by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which furnishes an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing exactly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace provide one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/CP alternative. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...

200k "Website Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The Website Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an average bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200k website hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names around the world will give you literally the same cPanel CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel Website Hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly covered most website hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number One: A moronic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be very watchful not to remove completely 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 very easy to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, 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 erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you getting disorientated? We unquestionably are!

Disadvantage Number Two: The same e-mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly fortify their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too badly.

Weak Side Number Three: A thorough lack of domain name management user interfaces

Do we need to refer to the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain administration user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" tool at all. That's a considerable shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Weak Side Number 4: Numerous login locations (minimum two, max three)

How about the need for an extra login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Website Hosting service provider. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (particularly designed for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting service provider is availing of, the earnest users can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Problem Number Five: More than 120 web hosting CP areas to get to know... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better grasp them promptly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...