Definition of cPanel Web Hosting

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the present website hosting market are provided by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized business segment, which furnishes an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing absolutely 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 website hosting offerings on the entire hosting marketplace supply precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a regular bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web pages. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique hosting brand names worldwide will offer you literally the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the current website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably met all website hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point Number 1: A ludicrous domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder system is:

Are you growing bewildered? We absolutely are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The very same mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to muck things up too badly.

Negative Side No.3: An entire shortage of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we have to mention the entire lack of a modern domain name management GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" menu at all. That's a huge disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Weak Side Number 4: Many user login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the need for an additional login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software solution? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting company. At times, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (particularly invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting supplier is utilizing, the devoted customers can end up with two extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Problem Number Five: More than 120 web hosting CP departments to get acquainted with... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting providers:

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