cPanel Web Hosting Definition

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite unsubstantial business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing segment, which provides a vast number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting market furnish strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are only a regular fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web pages. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names all over the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly satisfied all web hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point Number 1: A dumb domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you becoming confused? We surely are!

Weakness Number Two: The same mail folder setup

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly enhance their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too seriously.

Shortcoming Number Three: A sheer deficiency of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we have to mention the thorough lack of a modern domain management GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a vast downside. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Negative Sign Number Four: Many login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for another login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting distributor. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (particularly intended for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting company is availing of, the keen clients can end up with two extra logins (1: the billing/domain administration platform; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Shortcoming No.5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP menus to become acquainted with... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting providers:

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