cPanel Website Hosting Definition

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes a great quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting market furnish the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200k "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Assume you are just an average person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands in the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel CP and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present website hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably fulfilled all web hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to erase fully 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder system is:

Are you getting perplexed? We absolutely are!

Shortcoming No.2: The very same email folder setup

The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too seriously.

Shortcoming Number 3: A total lack of domain name manipulation menus

Do we need to point out the sheer shortage of a contemporary domain administration menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois info, secure the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a mammoth problem. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Negative Side Number 4: Many user login locations (minimum two, max three)

How about the demand for another login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration user interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting service provider. At times, based on the billing tool (especially designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the zealous users can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel departments to memorize... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting distributors:

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...