Definition of cPanel Web Hosting

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Web Hosting offers on the present web hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which supplies a big number of different web hosting brands, yet offering strictly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offers on the entire web hosting market offer absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "Web Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The Web 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 web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just a normal bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k website hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names across the world will give you the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on today's web hosting market is... Period.

The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel Web Hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly fulfilled most web hosting market preconditions. 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 domains...

Negative Side Number 1: A ludicrous domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, 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 attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you getting puzzled? We surely are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The same e-mail folder structure

The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly strengthen their faith in God when managing the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too seriously.

Negative Side Number 3: A thorough shortage of domain manipulation user interfaces

Do we have to mention the total deficiency of a modern domain name administration menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" menu at all. That's a vast inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Multiple user login places (min 2, max three)

How about the need for an extra login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration software? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Web Hosting supplier. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction tool (principally tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting supplier is using, the keen users can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel sections to learn... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting providers:

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