Definition of cPanel Web Hosting

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the current website hosting market are supplied by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which supplies a big amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market supply one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/Control Panel choice. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only an average fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brands all over the world will give you strictly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly answered most website hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story 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 stupid domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove 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 is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 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 getting puzzled? We definitely are!

Weak Point Number Two: The very same mail folder system

The mail folder structure on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly strengthen their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too gravely.

Weak Point Number 3: An absolute shortage of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we need to refer to the absolute lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" tool at all. That's a huge shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Problem Number 4: Many user login places (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the need for an extra login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting service provider. At times, based on the invoice transaction tool (particularly built for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting distributor is utilizing, the zealous users can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration software; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Point Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP menus to get to know... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting companies:

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