Definition of cPanel Hosting

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel hosting offers on the current web hosting market are furnished by a quite insignificant marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which provides an enormous quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying precisely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the entire hosting marketplace provide one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary chap who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the present web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably met most web hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you growing confused? We clearly are!

Negative Side No.2: The very same electronic mail folder configuration

The email folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly fortify their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too severely.

Problem Number Three: A thorough lack of domain administration sections

Do we need to cite the sheer lack of a modern domain manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" interface at all. That's a great drawback. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Weakness Number Four: Many user login places (min two, max 3)

What about the need for another login to access the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management software platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting distributor. Occasionally, based on the invoice transaction tool (especially tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting company is making use of, the zealous customers can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel areas to pick up... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them swiftly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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