cPanel Hosting Clarified

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the current web hosting market are provided by a very insubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing strictly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace provide exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

200k "hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web pages. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brand names across the world will give you the very same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably covered most website hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

Are you growing perplexed? We undeniably are!

Shortcoming Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder system

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly reinforce their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too badly.

Negative Side No.3: A thorough absence of domain manipulation sections

Do we need to cite the entire absence of a modern domain manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" tool at all. That's a big disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Downside No.4: Many user login places (min two, max 3)

What about the need for an additional login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management section? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting distributor. Occasionally, based on the billing transaction platform (particularly devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting firm is utilizing, the ardent users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the billing/domain name administration user interface; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel sections to get to know... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting providers:

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