What Does cPanel Web Hosting Denote?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on today's hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized business segment, which furnishes an immense number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering precisely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market furnish one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

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

The web hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an average person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200,000 website hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brand names across the world will offer you the very same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present-day website hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

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

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps met all web hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign Number 1: An idiotic domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 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 name)

Are you growing confused? We positively are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The same email folder arrangement

The mail folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly enhance their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too harshly.

Weak Point Number Three: A complete lack of domain name administration GUIs

Do we have to bring up the total deficiency of a modern domain administration interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" section at all. That's a major inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Weak Point Number 4: Multiple login places (min two, maximum three)

What about the need for an extra login to make use of the billing, domain name and tech support management software platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting corporation. Now and then, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (principally meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the avid customers can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing/domain management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support software), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number 5: 120+ website hosting Control Panel departments to get to know... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting companies:

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