cPanel Hosting Definition

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized business segment, which furnishes a vast number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering one and the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace furnish the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200k "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only a regular guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and online portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names across the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on today's web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing 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. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably satisfied all web hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming Number One: A moronic domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

Are you becoming baffled? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Side Number 2: The same email folder structure

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly enhance their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to mess things up too harshly.

Weak Point Number Three: A total deficiency of domain name manipulation tools

Do we have to point out the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration platform - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a major inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Multiple login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management system? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting vendor. Now and then, depending on the billing platform (principally developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the enthusiastic clients can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Problem Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP areas to memorize... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them fast... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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