What Does cPanel Website Hosting Stand for?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Website Hosting offers on today's website hosting marketplace are provided by a very inconsiderable business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which generates a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing the very same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting market provide strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "Website Hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The Website Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are only a normal chap who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 website hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names in the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the contemporary web hosting market is... Full stop.

The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel Website Hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably answered most web hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number 1: A dumb domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

Are you becoming perplexed? We clearly are!

Negative Aspect Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder structure

The mail folder structure on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too seriously.

Weakness No.3: An absolute lack of domain name manipulation menus

Do we need to refer to the complete shortage of a contemporary domain administration GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a vast downside. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Disadvantage No.4: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the need for an additional login to access the billing, domain name and technical support management GUI? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Website Hosting firm. At times, based on the billing tool (principally made for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting provider is availing of, the zealous clients can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel sections to memorize... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting suppliers:

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