cPanel Web Hosting Definition

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on today's website hosting marketplace are provided by a very insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small marketing niche, which provides a big amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing strictly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market supply the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200,000 "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an average fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site development processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k web hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names across the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps covered most hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder system 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)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain)
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 becoming puzzled? We surely are!

Weak Side Number 2: The same mail folder system

The mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly enhance their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too irreparably.

Inconvenience Number 3: An utter absence of domain name management interfaces

Do we need to refer to the absolute lack of a modern domain name manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois info, secure the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a considerable downside. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Shortcoming No.4: Numerous login places (minimum two, max 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and tech support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting service provider. At times, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (especially invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting company is utilizing, the eager customers can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration software solution; 2: the ticket support menu), ending up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP sections to memorize... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting vendors:

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