Definition of cPanel Website Hosting

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on today's web hosting marketplace are generated by a very unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which provides a big number of different web hosting brands, yet offering one and the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace supply precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/Control Panel choice. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200k "website hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a regular guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k web hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names all over the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on today's web hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps met all web hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side No.1: An imbecilic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular 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 attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you getting disorientated? We undoubtedly are!

Weak Point Number Two: The very same e-mail folder structure

The mail folder structure on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly fortify their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too irretrievably.

Weak Point No.3: An utter shortage of domain name management sections

Do we have to refer to the absolute shortage of a modern domain management platform - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a huge predicament. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Weakness No.4: Many user login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the necessity for another login to avail of the billing, domain and tech support administration software? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting provider. At times, depending on the invoice transaction platform (particularly intended for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting distributor is availing of, the earnest users can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management section; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: 120+ web hosting CP areas to become familiar with... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting service providers:

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