What Does cPanel Website Hosting Signify?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on the present web hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insignificant business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which furnishes a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying the very same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace supply one and the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an average guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k website hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands all over the world will give you strictly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably fulfilled most website hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point Number One: An idiotic domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names 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 very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain)

Are you becoming disorientated? We absolutely are!

Weakness Number 2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The mail folder structure on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly enhance their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too severely.

Weak Point Number Three: A total shortage of domain management interfaces

Do we have to point out the sheer lack of a modern domain administration interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a great weakness. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Negative Side Number Four: Multiple login places (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration system? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting distributor. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (principally developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting vendor is utilizing, the eager customers can end up with two extra logins (1: the billing/domain management section; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: 120+ website hosting Control Panel areas to become acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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