cPanel Website Hosting Definition

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting market are furnished by a quite insubstantial business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-sized business segment, which supplies a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing exactly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting market offer literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply an average bloke who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web pages. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200k web hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands all over the world will give you the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present website hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably satisfied most website hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience No.1: A stupid domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed 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. Observe for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you becoming confused? We definitely are!

Weakness Number 2: The very same e-mail folder structure

The email folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly strengthen their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too seriously.

Negative Sign Number 3: A total deficiency of domain manipulation GUIs

Do we need to cite the utter absence of a contemporary domain administration interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" menu at all. That's a great weakness. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Weak Point Number Four: Multiple user login locations (min two, max three)

What about the demand for another login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting firm. Occasionally, depending on the invoice transaction platform (particularly conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting vendor is utilizing, the ardent clients can end up with two extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain management interface; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP departments to become acquainted with... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the hosting CP. It's a great idea to learn each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting suppliers:

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