cPanel Website Hosting Definition

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting market are provided by a very insignificant business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which provides a vast quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying exactly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market supply exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an average fellow who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 web hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brand names worldwide will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on today's web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably covered most web hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point Number 1: A stupid domain folder system

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you becoming perplexed? We surely are!

Disadvantage No.2: The very same email folder arrangement

The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too severely.

Negative Sign Number 3: A thorough lack of domain administration tools

Do we have to cite the entire absence of a modern domain manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a colossal weakness. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Disadvantage Number Four: Many login places (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the need for another login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration software platform? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting company. Sometimes, based on the invoicing transaction tool (especially created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the avid customers can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name administration software solution; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Problem Number Five: 120+ website hosting CP departments to become familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting corporations:

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