What In Fact is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting market are generated by a very unsubstantial business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace furnish strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200k "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an average guy who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names all over the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the present-day web hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably answered all website hosting industry demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder system is:

Are you becoming baffled? We clearly are!

Disadvantage Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder structure on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly fortify their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too severely.

Drawback No.3: An entire absence of domain name administration tools

Do we have to cite the total deficiency of a modern domain administration platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a great problem. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Negative Side No.4: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the demand for another login to use the invoicing, domain name and technical support management GUI? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting supplier. At times, based on the billing tool (principally made for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting vendor is making use of, the keen customers can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing/domain name administration section; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel sections to memorize... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to learn each of them. And you'd better grasp them briskly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting vendors:

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