cPanel Website Hosting Clarified

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel Website Hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting market are supplied by a quite inconsiderable business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small business segment, which generates an enormous quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing one and the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market supply the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200,000 "Website Hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The Website Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a normal fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names worldwide will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the present hosting marketplace is... Period.

The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel Website Hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably satisfied all website hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the 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 name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you becoming nonplussed? We undoubtedly are!

Weakness Number 2: The very same email folder structure

The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly reinforce their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too harshly.

Weak Side Number 3: A thorough lack of domain administration options

Do we have to cite the total deficiency of a modern domain administration menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" section at all. That's an immense inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Side Number Four: Many login locations (minimum 2, max three)

How about the need for an additional login to use the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration software solution? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Website Hosting corporation. Sometimes, based on the invoice transaction tool (particularly conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel Website Hosting distributor is availing of, the earnest users can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management system; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Predicament Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to get to know... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better grasp them swiftly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting companies:

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