Definition of cPanel Website Hosting

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offers on the current website hosting market are supplied by a very insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which supplies an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering strictly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace offer precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200k "hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a regular guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web pages. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k website hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names across the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the present web hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly covered all web hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number 1: An idiotic domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain)
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 becoming confused? We unquestionably are!

Disadvantage No.2: The same e-mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly increase their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irreparably.

Problem No.3: A complete absence of domain name administration menus

Do we need to mention the entire lack of a modern domain name management menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" tool at all. That's an immense shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Shortcoming No.4: Multiple login places (min 2, max three)

What about the demand for an additional login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and tech support administration software platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting supplier. Now and then, depending on the billing platform (especially created for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting supplier is availing of, the devoted users can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting CP areas to memorize... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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