What Does cPanel Hosting Mean?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the present web hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite inconsiderable business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which generates a great number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing the very same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace supply one and the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

200k "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and websites. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 website hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brand names worldwide will give you the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the contemporary web hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably satisfied most web hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect No.1: A stupid domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you getting confused? We clearly are!

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

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly increase their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too gravely.

Predicament Number 3: A total deficiency of domain management options

Do we have to cite the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois info, protect the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" interface at all. That's a gigantic shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Problem Number Four: Many login places (min 2, max three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and tech support management platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting provider. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (especially meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is using, the earnest clients can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management system; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel sections to get acquainted with... fast

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a fine idea to learn each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting firms:

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