cPanel Hosting Definition

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which generates a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing the very same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting market provide absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a regular fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 web hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brands in the world will give you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the current website hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps met all web hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point Number 1: A moronic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub 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 remove on the web hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you getting confused? We undoubtedly are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The same mail folder structure

The mail folder arrangement on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly increase their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too gravely.

Downside No.3: An absolute lack of domain name management options

Do we have to refer to the thorough absence of a modern domain name manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a great downside. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Sign Number Four: Numerous user login locations (min 2, max three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to use the billing, domain name and technical support management section? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting provider. Sometimes, based on the billing tool (especially created for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting vendor is making use of, the keen customers can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain administration GUI; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Downside No.5: 120+ Control Panel areas to become acquainted with... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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