Definition of cPanel Hosting

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on today's website hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which generates a vast amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing strictly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace supply exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200k "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The web hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a regular fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and websites. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k web hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands across the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably answered most web hosting industry demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number 1: A ludicrous domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very attentive not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call 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 delete on the web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder system is:

Are you getting nonplussed? We doubtlessly are!

Weak Point Number 2: The same electronic mail folder system

The mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly strengthen their belief in God when managing the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too badly.

Shortcoming Number Three: An utter absence of domain name manipulation interfaces

Do we have to point out the utter shortage of a contemporary domain administration platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" menu at all. That's a big drawback. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Numerous login locations (min two, maximum 3)

What about the demand for an additional login to use the invoicing, domain name and technical support management system? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting firm. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (particularly built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the devoted customers can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain management software platform; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP areas to become acquainted with... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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