cPanel Web Hosting Definition

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the current website hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which provides a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing the very same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting market furnish precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are just a normal guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names in the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the present web hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably answered most website hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side No.1: A moronic domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

Are you getting nonplussed? We unquestionably are!

Negative Point Number Two: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too irreparably.

Negative Side Number Three: An absolute deficiency of domain name administration GUIs

Do we have to refer to the thorough shortage of a contemporary domain name administration menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" menu at all. That's a great drawback. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Sign Number Four: Many user login places (min two, max 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and tech support administration GUI? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting service provider. Sometimes, depending on the billing system (particularly meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting supplier is availing of, the avid clients can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain administration system; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Point Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel sections to become acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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