Definition of cPanel Website Hosting

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the current website hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which furnishes an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing literally the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market furnish exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/hosting CP alternative. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply an average fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 website hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brand names worldwide will offer 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 the present web hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps covered all website hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign No.1: A ludicrous domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new 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 remove on the web hosting 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 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 domains, please. Determine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you becoming baffled? We surely are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The very same e-mail folder setup

The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly fortify their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too harshly.

Negative Aspect Number 3: A sheer lack of domain name manipulation options

Do we have to mention the entire lack of a modern domain administration menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a big disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Disadvantage Number Four: Many login locations (minimum 2, max three)

How about the demand for an additional login to access the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting distributor. At times, on the basis of the invoicing platform (principally developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting company is making use of, the ardent customers can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name management software solution; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: 120+ website hosting CP menus to grasp... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better grasp them promptly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting companies:

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