cPanel Hosting Definition

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel Hosting offers on today's website hosting market are furnished by a very insignificant marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which supplies a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering literally the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market provide precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/Control Panel choice. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200k "Hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brand names across the world will give you precisely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on today's website hosting market is... Full stop.

The Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based Hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably satisfied most hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming Number 1: A dumb domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder system is:

Are you growing disorientated? We definitely are!

Weakness No.2: The same e-mail folder structure

The email folder arrangement on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly fortify their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too harshly.

Weakness No.3: An entire absence of domain name management sections

Do we need to cite the utter deficiency of a modern domain name administration menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois information, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" tool at all. That's an immense predicament. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Negative Point Number 4: Numerous login places (min two, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration system? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Hosting corporation. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (particularly tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel Hosting supplier is availing of, the enthusiastic users can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management menu; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel sections to grasp... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting vendors:

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