Definition of cPanel Web Hosting

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on the current web hosting market are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which generates a huge number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering absolutely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace provide literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Assume you are only a normal bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and online portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k website hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different hosting brands in the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably answered all web hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you growing confused? We clearly are!

Drawback Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly fortify their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too fatally.

Predicament Number 3: An utter shortage of domain management GUIs

Do we need to point out the thorough lack of a modern domain manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a big predicament. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Drawback Number Four: Numerous user login locations (minimum two, max 3)

What about the demand for another login to make use of the billing, domain name and technical support management section? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting company. Occasionally, depending on the billing tool (especially tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting company is utilizing, the enthusiastic users can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel departments to become familiar with... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting vendors:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...