What Does cPanel Hosting Stand for?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which supplies a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole hosting marketplace supply one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200,000 "web hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only a regular bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present-day web hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably satisfied most website hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience Number One: A laughable domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the web server, since they all are situated 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. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

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

Are you becoming perplexed? We unquestionably are!

Negative Side Number 2: The same electronic mail folder structure

The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly increase their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too gravely.

Problem No.3: An absolute lack of domain manipulation options

Do we have to bring up the entire lack of a contemporary domain management interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a mammoth inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Inconvenience Number 4: Many login places (min two, max three)

How about the demand for another login to make use of the billing, domain name and technical support administration software solution? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting supplier. Sometimes, based on the billing platform (especially built for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the avid users can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain management user interface; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Side No.5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel departments to become acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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