Definition of cPanel Web Hosting

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on the present website hosting market are generated by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which generates a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing absolutely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole hosting marketplace furnish strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a normal bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k web hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly covered most website hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number 1: A stupid domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite 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 erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you growing nonplussed? We definitely are!

Downside No.2: The very same e-mail folder system

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too badly.

Downside Number Three: A total lack of domain manipulation tools

Do we have to mention the thorough absence of a modern domain name administration interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a gigantic downside. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Weakness Number Four: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting company. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction system (particularly meant for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting company is making use of, the ardent customers can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Side No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP menus to pick up... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better grasp them promptly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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