cPanel Web Hosting Definition

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the current hosting market are generated by a quite insignificant business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies a great amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying one and the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace provide strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

200k "web hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are merely a normal person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and online portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names across the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the current website hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably answered most web hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience Number One: An idiotic domain name folder system

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to delete 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 domain names are quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you becoming nonplussed? We positively are!

Weak Side Number 2: The very same mail folder arrangement

The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly fortify their faith in God when managing the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too severely.

Downside No.3: A total absence of domain administration tools

Do we have to refer to the utter absence of a contemporary domain management interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a colossal predicament. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Drawback No.4: Numerous login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the demand for an extra login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration tool? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting distributor. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction tool (especially created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the ardent users can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management system; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty Control Panel departments to memorize... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them swiftly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting firms:

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...