Definition of cPanel Website Hosting

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the current website hosting market are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which generates a great number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing exactly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting market offer literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an average fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names around the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably answered most web hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number One: A dumb domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite 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 erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder setup is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
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 becoming disorientated? We undoubtedly are!

Downside Number Two: The same mail folder structure

The email folder arrangement on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly reinforce their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too severely.

Weak Side Number 3: An utter shortage of domain name management GUIs

Do we need to point out the thorough absence of a modern domain name management GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" menu at all. That's an enormous inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Weakness Number 4: Many login places (min 2, maximum three)

What about the need for an extra login to access the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management software? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting firm. At times, depending on the billing platform (particularly created for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting service provider is making use of, the earnest users can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing/domain administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Point Number 5: 120+ hosting Control Panel sections to become acquainted with... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them swiftly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting corporations:

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