What Does cPanel Hosting Mean?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on today's hosting market are furnished by a quite insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which generates a vast number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing the very same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market provide one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200k "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting brand names. Assume you are only a regular person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web pages. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names across the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly answered most website hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the web server, because they all are created 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 placed 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. Verify for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you becoming confused? We categorically are!

Problem No.2: The very same e-mail folder setup

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly fortify their belief in God when managing the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too badly.

Negative Point No.3: A sheer shortage of domain name management interfaces

Do we have to cite the absolute shortage of a modern domain manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a gigantic weakness. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Inconvenience Number Four: Multiple login locations (min 2, maximum three)

How about the need for an additional login to access the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management GUI? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting firm. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction system (particularly made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the avid clients can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side No.5: More than 120 web hosting CP menus to memorize... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ areas inside the hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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