What Does cPanel Web Hosting Signify?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on today's website hosting marketplace are provided by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which supplies an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet providing one and the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace furnish literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are only a regular bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k website hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands worldwide will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on today's website hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably fulfilled all website hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side Number One: A stupid domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you growing perplexed? We definitely are!

Disadvantage Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder setup

The email folder structure on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too seriously.

Inconvenience Number Three: A sheer shortage of domain name administration interfaces

Do we need to cite the complete shortage of a contemporary domain administration user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" section at all. That's a vast problem. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...

Predicament Number Four: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration GUI? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting distributor. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (principally built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the enthusiastic customers can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management interface; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Downside Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel menus to become acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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