cPanel Hosting Definition

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel hosting offers on the present-day web hosting market are generated by a quite insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which provides a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting market furnish one and the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

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

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only a normal chap who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brands all over the world will give you precisely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present web hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly covered most website hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number One: An idiotic domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the web 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 is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you becoming puzzled? We positively are!

Weak Point Number 2: The very same mail folder setup

The email folder arrangement on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly strengthen their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too harshly.

Weak Side Number 3: An utter lack of domain manipulation user interfaces

Do we need to point out the absolute lack of a contemporary domain management platform - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" menu at all. That's a huge weakness. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

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

What about the need for an extra login to use the invoicing, domain name and tech support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting distributor. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (principally conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting service provider is using, the keen clients can end up with two additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name management software; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number Five: 120+ CP areas to become acquainted with... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to learn each of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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