Definition of cPanel Hosting

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are supplied by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes a big amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering strictly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market furnish the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

200k "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only a normal person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands around the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present-day web hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably met all web hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point Number 1: A ludicrous domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely attentive not to delete completely 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you becoming nonplussed? We undeniably are!

Negative Point Number Two: The same email folder setup

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly enhance their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too gravely.

Weak Point No.3: An entire shortage of domain manipulation tools

Do we need to bring up the utter shortage of a contemporary domain manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a gigantic downside. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Negative Side Number 4: Many user login places (min 2, max three)

What about the need for an additional login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and tech support administration GUI? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting vendor. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing platform (principally invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting provider is using, the eager customers can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing/domain management GUI; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel areas to grasp... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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