Definition of cPanel Website Hosting

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on today's website hosting market are supplied by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which provides a huge number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing exactly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace provide absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/CP alternative. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

200,000 "web hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an ordinary person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names across the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the present-day web hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably met all website hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very careful not to erase fully 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you becoming puzzled? We definitely are!

Predicament No.2: The same mail folder system

The e-mail folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly increase their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too severely.

Negative Point No.3: An absolute lack of domain management GUIs

Do we have to refer to the sheer lack of a modern domain management platform - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a great problem. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Downside Number 4: Many login locations (min two, max three)

What about the demand for another login to access the billing transaction, domain and technical support management software solution? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting service provider. Now and then, based on the invoice transaction platform (principally designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the eager customers can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain management tool; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP sections to get familiar with... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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