Definition of cPanel Web Hosting

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the current web hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which generates a vast quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace provide literally the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...

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

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting brand names. Assume you are just a regular guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site making procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names around the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly fulfilled all web hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number One: A stupid domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra careful not to delete 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). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you becoming nonplussed? We categorically are!

Disadvantage No.2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The mail folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly increase their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too irretrievably.

Problem Number 3: A total deficiency of domain name management options

Do we need to bring up the thorough absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a mammoth weakness. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Shortcoming Number 4: Numerous user login places (min 2, max 3)

How about the necessity for another login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing tool (principally built for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting provider is availing of, the eager clients can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty Control Panel menus to get to know... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, 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? Mark that one as well...