cPanel Hosting Definition

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on today's web hosting market are generated by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying one and the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200k "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an average person who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different hosting brand names across the world will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on today's website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly satisfied most web hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point No.1: An idiotic domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous 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 erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

Are you getting disorientated? We doubtlessly are!

Predicament Number Two: The same electronic mail folder structure

The e-mail folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to botch things up too irreparably.

Negative Aspect No.3: A complete lack of domain administration user interfaces

Do we have to refer to the complete shortage of a contemporary domain name administration user interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" user interface at all. That's an immense inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Disadvantage Number 4: Many user login locations (min 2, max three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the billing, domain name and technical support management software solution? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting supplier. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing system (particularly conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting supplier is using, the avid users can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain name management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Drawback No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel departments to memorize... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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