cPanel Hosting Definition

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on today's hosting marketplace are generated by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which provides a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering precisely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting market provide exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200,000 "hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a normal bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k web hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brands worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly covered most website hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number One: A stupid domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new 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 erase on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite 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 domain names, please. Decide for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 getting puzzled? We undoubtedly are!

Predicament Number 2: The very same e-mail folder system

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly increase their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too severely.

Weakness Number 3: A thorough shortage of domain administration menus

Do we have to point out the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a great predicament. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Weak Point Number Four: Numerous login places (min two, max 3)

How about the demand for another login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and tech support management software platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting vendor. Now and then, on the basis of the billing platform (particularly built for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting distributor is using, the keen users can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain management section; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Side No.5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP departments to become acquainted with... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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