Definition of cPanel Website Hosting

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present-day web hosting market are supplied by a very insignificant marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which provides a big number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying exactly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire hosting marketplace supply exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200k "web hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an average guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 web hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on today's web hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps satisfied all website hosting market demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number 1: An idiotic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you becoming perplexed? We undoubtedly are!

Negative Aspect Number Two: The same mail folder setup

The email folder structure on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly fortify their faith in God when managing the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Negative Aspect Number Three: A thorough shortage of domain management sections

Do we have to cite the total lack of a modern domain management GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's an immense shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Downside No.4: Numerous user login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the need for another login to access the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration software platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting service provider. At times, on the basis of the invoicing system (principally tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the zealous users can end up with two extra login locations (1: the billing/domain administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel areas to get acquainted with... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them fast... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting corporations:

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