Definition of cPanel Web Hosting

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the present web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which supplies a vast number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing absolutely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace offer literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200k "website hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a regular fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names across the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel CP and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the contemporary hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly fulfilled all hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign No.1: A laughable domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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. Discover for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 name)
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)
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 name)

Are you growing disorientated? We unquestionably are!

Negative Sign No.2: The same email folder configuration

The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too fatally.

Negative Aspect Number 3: A total lack of domain administration options

Do we have to refer to the utter deficiency of a modern domain administration GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois info, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a major weakness. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Negative Aspect No.4: Multiple login places (min 2, max 3)

How about the necessity for an extra login to make use of the billing, domain and tech support management section? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting service provider. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing platform (especially invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting service provider is using, the keen users can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain name administration section; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Shortcoming No.5: More than 120 CP departments to grasp... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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