cPanel Website Hosting Definition

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies an enormous number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing exactly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200k "hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an ordinary person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brand names in the world will give you literally the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the present-day hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps answered most web hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number One: A dumb domain folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub 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, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed 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 arrangement is:

Are you becoming confused? We undeniably are!

Negative Point Number Two: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The email folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly reinforce their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too irreparably.

Weakness Number 3: A total deficiency of domain name manipulation options

Do we have to bring up the complete deficiency of a modern domain administration interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a vast problem. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Negative Point Number Four: Multiple login locations (minimum two, max 3)

How about the necessity for another login to access the invoicing, domain and tech support management user interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting firm. Now and then, depending on the billing tool (particularly designed for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting distributor is using, the eager users can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: More than 120 website hosting CP menus to get acquainted with... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them fast... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting providers:

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