cPanel Web Hosting Definition

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting market are generated by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which supplies a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering the very same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting market furnish precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an average person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands in the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel CP and platform, named in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the current website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

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

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps fulfilled most web hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number One: An idiotic domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be very cautious not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you becoming baffled? We categorically are!

Weakness No.2: The same mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder structure on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly fortify their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irreparably.

Weak Side No.3: An utter deficiency of domain name administration menus

Do we have to mention the complete shortage of a modern domain name administration platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois information, shield the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" menu at all. That's a great drawback. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...

Predicament Number 4: Numerous user login locations (minimum two, max three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to use the billing, domain name and technical support administration software? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting provider. Now and then, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (particularly built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting service provider is making use of, the devoted users can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: More than 120 website hosting CP areas to get familiar with... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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