cPanel Hosting Definition

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the current web hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing the very same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace offer the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a normal chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and websites. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k website hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names across the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps satisfied all web hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience Number 1: A moronic domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain)

Are you growing disorientated? We undeniably are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The very same mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly increase their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too irretrievably.

Weak Side Number 3: A sheer deficiency of domain manipulation interfaces

Do we need to cite the total lack of a contemporary domain administration platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a huge predicament. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Inconvenience Number 4: Multiple login places (min two, max three)

How about the need for an extra login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration user interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting distributor. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing platform (principally meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the devoted users can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management software solution; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Shortcoming No.5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel departments to become familiar with... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to learn each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them fast... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting service providers:

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