cPanel Hosting Definition

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the present website hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which furnishes an enormous number of different web hosting brands, yet providing strictly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting market offer one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an ordinary guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on today's web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps answered all web hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience Number 1: A ludicrous domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you becoming nonplussed? We certainly are!

Weakness No.2: The same e-mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly enhance their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too fatally.

Negative Side No.3: A sheer deficiency of domain name manipulation options

Do we have to cite the absolute absence of a contemporary domain name management interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" tool at all. That's an immense shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Drawback No.4: Multiple user login locations (min 2, max three)

What about the demand for an extra login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and tech support administration system? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting firm. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing system (principally invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting provider is making use of, the avid users can end up with two extra logins (1: the billing/domain management section; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP departments to become acquainted with... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them promptly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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