Definition of cPanel Hosting

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the present web hosting market are supplied by a quite unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which provides a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing absolutely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting market furnish precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are just an ordinary person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names worldwide will offer you the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly satisfied all web hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number 1: A moronic domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you getting disorientated? We unquestionably are!

Negative Side No.2: The very same e-mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly reinforce their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too fatally.

Predicament No.3: An entire deficiency of domain name manipulation GUIs

Do we have to cite the utter absence of a modern domain name management tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's an enormous predicament. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Downside No.4: Many login locations (min two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for another login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration software? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting distributor. At times, on the basis of the billing system (especially built for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting vendor is making use of, the zealous customers can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration software solution; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: 120+ web hosting CP menus to become familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting corporations:

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