Definition of cPanel Web Hosting

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the present web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which generates a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing the very 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 offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace provide the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a regular bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands worldwide will give you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly answered all web hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number One: A foolish domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous 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 delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

Are you becoming confused? We categorically are!

Negative Side Number 2: The same email folder configuration

The mail folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly reinforce their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too harshly.

Weak Side No.3: An utter shortage of domain name manipulation menus

Do we need to cite the absolute lack of a contemporary domain manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a major problem. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Weak Point Number 4: Numerous user login places (minimum two, max three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and tech support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting vendor. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (principally built for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting company is utilizing, the earnest clients can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name management section; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Weakness No.5: 120+ hosting Control Panel areas to get familiar with... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up promptly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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