cPanel Web Hosting Definition

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offers on the present web hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale business segment, which generates an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing literally the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace furnish one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are only a regular bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web sites. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200k hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands all over the world will give you strictly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on today's web hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly met all website hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side Number 1: A moronic domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra attentive not to delete completely 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 erase on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you growing baffled? We definitely are!

Negative Point Number 2: The very same mail folder structure

The mail folder structure on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too severely.

Problem Number Three: A complete lack of domain name administration GUIs

Do we need to mention the sheer deficiency of a contemporary domain name management GUI - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a considerable drawback. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Weakness Number 4: Many login places (min two, max three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to use the invoicing, domain name and technical support management menu? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting service provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (particularly invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting distributor is using, the earnest clients can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management platform; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty hosting CP areas to become acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a great idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better grasp them swiftly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, 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...