Definition of cPanel Hosting

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on today's hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insignificant marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing one and the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace furnish strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200k "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are only an ordinary person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k website hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands around the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the current website hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably fulfilled most website hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience Number One: A foolish domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub 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 remove on the hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite 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 attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain)
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 name)
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 getting bewildered? We surely are!

Negative Point No.2: The same mail folder setup

The mail folder structure on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly fortify their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too fatally.

Downside Number Three: A thorough deficiency of domain manipulation user interfaces

Do we have to point out the thorough shortage of a contemporary domain administration tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a huge disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Many login locations (min two, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to access the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration tool? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting provider. At times, based on the invoicing system (particularly invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the ardent customers can end up with two additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain management software; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty CP menus to pick up... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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