Definition of cPanel Hosting

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the present website hosting marketplace are provided by a very insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which provides a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering precisely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace offer the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an average chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k website hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names all over the world will offer you the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present-day web hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps covered most website hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament No.1: An idiotic domain folder system

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very cautious 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain name)

Are you becoming puzzled? We definitely are!

Negative Point Number Two: The very same e-mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too badly.

Inconvenience Number 3: An absolute shortage of domain name management tools

Do we need to cite the total lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois information, shield the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a major inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Inconvenience Number 4: Multiple login locations (min 2, max three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management section? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting distributor. Occasionally, depending on the invoice transaction system (principally conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting supplier is utilizing, the zealous users can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain management tool; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel departments to memorize... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better pick them up briskly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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