cPanel Hosting Definition

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting market are supplied by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering the very same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an average fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and websites. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brands around the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a great strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly fulfilled most website hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder system

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous 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 domains, please. Observe for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you getting confused? We clearly are!

Problem No.2: The very same e-mail folder system

The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly enhance their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to botch things up too badly.

Weakness No.3: A thorough shortage of domain name management sections

Do we have to bring up the complete absence of a modern domain name manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a gigantic downside. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Multiple login places (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the need for an extra login to utilize the billing, domain and technical support administration section? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (especially tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting service provider is utilizing, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: 120+ web hosting CP departments to get familiar with... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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