Definition of cPanel Website Hosting

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the present web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which provides a vast number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole hosting marketplace provide exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/Control Panel option. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a regular person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200k website hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands in the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps fulfilled most web hosting business requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side Number 1: A dumb domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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 growing confused? We unquestionably are!

Problem Number Two: The very same mail folder setup

The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly enhance their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too severely.

Predicament Number Three: An absolute deficiency of domain administration menus

Do we have to mention the entire lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a mammoth shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Weak Point Number Four: Many user login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the need for an additional login to access the billing, domain and tech support administration user interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting supplier. Sometimes, depending on the billing system (especially built for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting distributor is using, the eager clients can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP menus to pick up... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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