cPanel Website Hosting Definition

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on today's web hosting marketplace are provided by a very insubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing strictly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting market provide strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an ordinary person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names worldwide will give you exactly the same cPanel CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the current website hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably satisfied most web hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience No.1: A ludicrous domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra careful 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the hosting server, since 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 name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

Are you becoming puzzled? We absolutely are!

Negative Side Number Two: The same mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly fortify their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too severely.

Disadvantage Number 3: An entire deficiency of domain manipulation sections

Do we need to refer to the complete deficiency of a modern domain manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a major drawback. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Inconvenience No.4: Numerous login places (min 2, max three)

How about the demand for another login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration menu? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting distributor. Sometimes, depending on the billing system (particularly designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting provider is availing of, the avid users can end up with two extra login places (1: the billing/domain administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel areas to become familiar with... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better learn them promptly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting vendors:

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