What Does cPanel Hosting Denote?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the present hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which provides a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing absolutely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace offer one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200k "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are merely a regular bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and websites. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k web hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands worldwide will offer you literally the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

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

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably fulfilled all web hosting market requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming No.1: A moronic domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the 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 is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain)
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 name)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
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 growing baffled? We undeniably are!

Weak Side Number Two: The same mail folder arrangement

The mail folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly increase their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too harshly.

Disadvantage No.3: A thorough deficiency of domain manipulation tools

Do we have to mention the complete shortage of a modern domain name management GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois info, protect the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a great predicament. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Predicament Number 4: Multiple login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the need for an extra login to avail of the invoicing, domain and technical support management system? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting service provider. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (particularly created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the earnest users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management GUI; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Point Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP menus to become familiar with... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting corporations:

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...