cPanel Web Hosting Clarified

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Web Hosting offers on today's website hosting marketplace are generated by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which furnishes an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying one and the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire hosting market provide strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/Control Panel choice. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200k "Web Hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The Web Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are only a regular guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and websites. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands in the world will offer you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the current website hosting market is... Full stop.

The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably answered all website hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number 1: A foolish domain folder system

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very attentive not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you getting puzzled? We positively are!

Negative Point Number Two: The very same email folder setup

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly increase their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too irretrievably.

Predicament No.3: A total lack of domain name manipulation sections

Do we need to mention the utter deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois information, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's an enormous inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Weak Point Number 4: Numerous login places (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to access the invoicing, domain name and tech support management menu? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Web Hosting firm. At times, on the basis of the billing system (principally invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel Web Hosting vendor is utilizing, the earnest users can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Downside No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel departments to memorize... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better get to know them promptly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting vendors:

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