Definition of cPanel Web Hosting

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which furnishes an immense number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace offer literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/CP option. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200,000 "Web Hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The Web Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are only an ordinary chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names in the world will give you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on today's web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps met all website hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side Number 1: A ludicrous domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

Are you becoming baffled? We clearly are!

Negative Point Number 2: The same electronic mail folder system

The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly fortify their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too seriously.

Weak Point Number 3: A total deficiency of domain management user interfaces

Do we need to mention the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois information, protect the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" section at all. That's a considerable shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Inconvenience Number 4: Many login places (min 2, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Web Hosting company. Occasionally, based on the billing transaction tool (principally intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting supplier is utilizing, the ardent clients can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management interface; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty CP areas to become acquainted with... quickly

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

With all due appreciation, 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? Note that one too...