What Does cPanel Website Hosting Denote?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on today's web hosting market are generated by a very insubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which generates an enormous amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing strictly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole hosting marketplace furnish one and the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an ordinary chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k website hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brand names across the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present website hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably satisfied most website hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign Number One: An idiotic domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known 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 domain names, please. Discover for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 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 name)

Are you growing puzzled? We undoubtedly are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The very same e-mail folder system

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly enhance their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too fatally.

Negative Sign Number 3: A sheer absence of domain management tools

Do we need to refer to the entire absence of a modern domain management interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" section at all. That's a vast weakness. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Point Number Four: Many login places (min two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration section? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting service provider. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (principally developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting company is utilizing, the enthusiastic users can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP areas to memorize... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the web hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better grasp them quickly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting providers:

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