What Does cPanel Web Hosting Mean?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel hosting offerings on the present web hosting marketplace are generated by a very inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which furnishes a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing absolutely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market furnish literally the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an average fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and online portals. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brand names worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the present website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably fulfilled most website hosting market preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point Number 1: A stupid domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be very cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you growing nonplussed? We unquestionably are!

Weak Side Number Two: The same e-mail folder system

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly reinforce their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too seriously.

Disadvantage No.3: A total absence of domain management tools

Do we need to cite the absolute lack of a modern domain name manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" interface at all. That's a gigantic disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Weak Side Number 4: Many user login locations (min 2, max three)

What about the need for an extra login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management software solution? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting vendor. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction system (especially invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting service provider is utilizing, the eager users can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration software platform; 2: the ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number 5: 120+ website hosting Control Panel departments to become acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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