What Does cPanel Web Hosting Stand for?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size business niche, which provides a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering strictly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market offer literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/hosting CP choice. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "web hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just a normal person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can select? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k website hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brands across the world will give you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on today's web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably fulfilled all website hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely attentive not to erase fully 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 simple to delete on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known 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 erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you getting puzzled? We categorically are!

Inconvenience No.2: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder structure on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly fortify their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too badly.

Negative Sign Number 3: An absolute shortage of domain name management GUIs

Do we have to bring up the complete absence of a modern domain name management user interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a huge problem. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Side No.4: Many user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the need for another login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration software? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting corporation. Sometimes, based on the billing transaction system (especially made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is utilizing, the earnest clients can end up with two extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain management GUI; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Problem No.5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel menus to get to know... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting distributors:

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...