What Does cPanel Web Hosting Stand for?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the current hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which generates a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering precisely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market furnish one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/CP alternative. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

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

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a normal guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and online portals. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names across the world will give you literally the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the current web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly met all website hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience No.1: A laughable domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra careful 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 quite simple to remove on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

Are you becoming baffled? We certainly are!

Weak Side Number Two: The same mail folder structure

The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too harshly.

Inconvenience Number Three: A sheer deficiency of domain name manipulation tools

Do we have to point out the sheer absence of a modern domain administration GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois information, protect the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" tool at all. That's a vast disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Downside No.4: Many user login places (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the need for another login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management software platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting vendor. Sometimes, based on the invoice transaction system (principally conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the ardent users can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing/domain management section; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Shortcoming No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel areas to get familiar with... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a superb idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them swiftly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...