Definition of cPanel Hosting

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on today's website hosting marketplace are supplied by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which generates a big amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing one and the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting market provide one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/CP choice. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an average bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 web hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands around the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on today's website hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably met most website hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number One: A ludicrous domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely attentive 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). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed 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. Determine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder system 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)

Are you getting baffled? We certainly are!

Predicament Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder structure

The email folder arrangement on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too irreparably.

Weakness Number 3: A thorough deficiency of domain management GUIs

Do we have to refer to the sheer absence of a modern domain name management user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" menu at all. That's an immense weakness. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Weak Side Number Four: Many login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the need for another login to make use of the billing, domain and tech support administration GUI? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting firm. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (particularly meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is utilizing, the avid users can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain administration section; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP menus to pick up... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up briskly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, 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? Remark that one too...