Definition of cPanel Hosting

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on today's website hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale business segment, which generates a vast quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying the very same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting market provide strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200k "web hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a normal guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site development processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting corporations out there. Officially. 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 the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the current web hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably satisfied all web hosting industry preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament No.1: A dumb domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely cautious 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). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you getting bewildered? We definitely are!

Weak Point Number 2: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The mail folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly fortify their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too harshly.

Problem No.3: A thorough deficiency of domain name administration tools

Do we need to bring up the total absence of a contemporary domain management menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois details, shield the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" section at all. That's a big downside. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Weak Side Number 4: Numerous login places (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the need for an extra login to avail of the invoicing, domain and technical support administration software solution? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting supplier. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (particularly meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the avid customers can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Sign Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel areas to become acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting corporations:

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...