cPanel Hosting Definition

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the present-day website hosting market are furnished by a very unsubstantial business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which provides a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing one and the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire hosting market offer literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an ordinary chap who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names all over the world will give you the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on today's web hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably answered most web hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number One: A moronic domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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)

Are you growing nonplussed? We definitely are!

Downside Number 2: The same e-mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too harshly.

Weak Side No.3: An utter absence of domain management options

Do we have to point out the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a major shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Weak Side Number 4: Many login places (min 2, max 3)

How about the need for an extra login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management menu? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting supplier. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (especially created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is using, the avid customers can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management platform; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Problem No.5: More than 120 CP departments to pick up... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a fine idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting service providers:

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...