cPanel Website Hosting Definition

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on today's website hosting market are generated by a very inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing segment, which provides a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying exactly the same solutions: chiefly 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 web hosting marketplace offer the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

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

The hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are just a normal person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 website hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique hosting brands worldwide will give you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly met most web hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number One: A moronic domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder system is:

Are you getting bewildered? We undeniably are!

Drawback Number Two: The same electronic mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly enhance their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too seriously.

Downside No.3: An absolute lack of domain administration menus

Do we have to refer to the entire absence of a contemporary domain administration user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois information, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a considerable disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Inconvenience Number 4: Many login locations (min 2, max three)

What about the demand for another login to make use of the billing, domain name and tech support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting provider. Occasionally, depending on the billing system (particularly designed for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting corporation is utilizing, the earnest clients can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing/domain name administration tool; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: 120+ CP menus to pick up... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them fast... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting corporations:

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