What Does cPanel Web Hosting Mean?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which generates a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying one and the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace offer literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200k "hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a normal chap who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different hosting brands all over the world will give you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present-day web hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably fulfilled all web hosting market requirements. 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 domain names...

Downside Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very 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 remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you getting baffled? We absolutely are!

Shortcoming Number Two: The same e-mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder structure on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly enhance their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too fatally.

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

Do we need to refer to the entire deficiency of a modern domain manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" interface at all. That's a mammoth weakness. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Negative Point No.4: Multiple login places (min 2, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management software? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting service provider. Sometimes, based on the billing transaction platform (principally developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting supplier is making use of, the avid clients can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Side No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel areas to become familiar with... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them swiftly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting corporations:

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