Definition of cPanel Web Hosting

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on the current website hosting marketplace are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which provides a great quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace furnish one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200,000 "hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an ordinary person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k website hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names all over the world will give you precisely the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on today's web hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly met all hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number One: A moronic domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very careful not to remove fully 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 easy to erase on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you growing confused? We certainly are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder setup

The mail folder arrangement on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly increase their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too badly.

Downside Number Three: An utter deficiency of domain name management menus

Do we have to point out the utter lack of a contemporary domain name administration interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" menu at all. That's a huge problem. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Drawback Number 4: Multiple login locations (min 2, max three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration GUI? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting firm. At times, on the basis of the invoicing platform (especially invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting firm is using, the zealous users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain management tool; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: More than 120 Control Panel departments to get acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the CP. It's an excellent idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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