cPanel Website Hosting Definition

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which furnishes an enormous quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing strictly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the whole web hosting market supply the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

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

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an ordinary bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web pages. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 website hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brand names all over the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present website hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably fulfilled most web hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem No.1: A laughable domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you growing bewildered? We undoubtedly are!

Weakness Number Two: The same mail folder setup

The mail folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly increase their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too irretrievably.

Downside Number Three: An utter deficiency of domain name administration tools

Do we have to point out the absolute shortage of a modern domain manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a colossal disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Predicament Number 4: Numerous login locations (minimum two, max 3)

How about the demand for an extra login to avail of the billing transaction, domain and technical support management menu? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting corporation. At times, depending on the billing transaction tool (principally meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the devoted users can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing/domain name administration software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Downside Number Five: 120+ web hosting CP sections to memorize... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting firms:

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