cPanel Website Hosting Definition

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the current web hosting market are provided by a very insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which supplies an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing absolutely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace offer precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an average guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k web hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names around the world will offer you literally the same cPanel CP and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the current hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps met all web hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number 1: A stupid domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are created 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain)
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 name)

Are you getting nonplussed? We absolutely are!

Weak Side No.2: The very same e-mail folder structure

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too severely.

Predicament No.3: An utter lack of domain management tools

Do we need to refer to the absolute deficiency of a contemporary domain administration interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's an enormous inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Numerous login locations (min two, maximum 3)

What about the need for an additional login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management system? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting service provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (especially created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the keen customers can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: 120+ web hosting CP departments to memorize... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better learn them swiftly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting vendors:

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