cPanel Website Hosting Definition

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel website hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which provides a big amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying literally the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market supply literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200k "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an average chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names around the world will give you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the contemporary web hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably satisfied all web hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side No.1: A stupid domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra attentive not to erase entirely 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 quite easy to remove on the server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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. Verify for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you growing disorientated? We unquestionably are!

Negative Side Number Two: The very same mail folder arrangement

The email folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly increase their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too severely.

Shortcoming Number Three: A total deficiency of domain manipulation options

Do we have to refer to the complete shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a great drawback. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Drawback Number 4: Numerous user login locations (minimum two, max 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration user interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting corporation. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing system (particularly built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting vendor is utilizing, the keen customers can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the billing/domain name management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

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

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a great idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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