cPanel Website Hosting Definition

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the current web hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which furnishes a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing the very same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market offer the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 web hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands in the world will give you the very same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present-day web hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

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

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps satisfied all website hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside No.1: A foolish domain folder arrangement

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

Are you growing perplexed? We positively are!

Weakness Number 2: The very same email folder system

The e-mail folder configuration on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too irreparably.

Shortcoming Number Three: An absolute absence of domain name management options

Do we have to cite the absolute absence of a contemporary domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a big drawback. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Downside Number 4: Many login locations (min 2, max 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to use the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management section? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting provider. Now and then, based on the invoice transaction system (principally designed for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting provider is utilizing, the devoted clients can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management tool; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel sections to memorize... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 sections inside the Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting companies:

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