cPanel Web Hosting Definition

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the current website hosting market are supplied by a quite insignificant business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small marketing niche, which generates a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the whole hosting market offer strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/Control Panel choice. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site creation procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names around the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on today's website hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps answered all web hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra careful not to erase entirely 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 very easy to remove on the server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

Are you growing perplexed? We definitely are!

Negative Point No.2: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder configuration on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too seriously.

Inconvenience Number 3: A total lack of domain management GUIs

Do we need to cite the absolute absence of a modern domain manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's an immense predicament. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Negative Side Number Four: Many login locations (min two, maximum 3)

What about the need for an extra login to use the billing, domain and tech support administration software solution? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting company. Occasionally, based on the billing transaction platform (particularly developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting provider is making use of, the keen clients can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing/domain name management system; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Point Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP departments to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...