cPanel Hosting Definition

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on today's website hosting market are supplied by a quite insignificant business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing one and the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market provide one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/Control Panel option. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an average person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k website hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brands in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on today's web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps satisfied most hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming No.1: A moronic domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous 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. Determine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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)
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 name)

Are you growing confused? We undoubtedly are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The same e-mail folder system

The mail folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly increase their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too badly.

Shortcoming No.3: A total lack of domain manipulation sections

Do we need to mention the thorough absence of a modern domain manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a major predicament. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Weakness Number Four: Many user login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the necessity for another login to make use of the billing, domain name and tech support management interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting vendor. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (particularly developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the keen users can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing/domain name management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Drawback No.5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP departments to grasp... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better grasp them quickly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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