What Does cPanel Hosting Stand for?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Hosting offers on today's website hosting market are generated by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which generates a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering literally the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting market provide absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "Hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web pages. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k web hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands across the world will offer you literally the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the present website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based Hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps satisfied all website hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the server, because 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 placed 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. See for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you becoming baffled? We absolutely are!

Inconvenience No.2: The very same mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly reinforce their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too badly.

Negative Sign No.3: An utter lack of domain management user interfaces

Do we need to refer to the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain name management platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a colossal weakness. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Negative Sign No.4: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to use the invoicing, domain name and tech support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Hosting vendor. Sometimes, based on the billing platform (particularly conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Hosting distributor is availing of, the keen users can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing/domain name administration tool; 2: the ticket support menu), ending up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel departments to pick up... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better grasp them swiftly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting distributors:

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