Definition of cPanel Website Hosting

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the present web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insignificant business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which supplies a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing absolutely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting market furnish exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only an average person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and online portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200k website hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brands around the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel CP and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the current website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably answered all web hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number One: A laughable domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new 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 web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder system is:

Are you getting puzzled? We absolutely are!

Inconvenience Number Two: The very same e-mail folder setup

The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly strengthen their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too irreparably.

Weak Point Number Three: A complete lack of domain name manipulation menus

Do we need to cite the absolute lack of a contemporary domain management menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a colossal problem. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Numerous login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and tech support management software platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting firm. Now and then, based on the billing tool (principally conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the ardent users can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty CP departments to grasp... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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