cPanel Hosting Definition

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel website hosting offers on the present hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insignificant marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which generates an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing one and the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace provide one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

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

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a regular fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names worldwide will give you exactly the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, named differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably answered most web hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament Number One: A dumb domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the hosting 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 name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how good cPanel's domain name 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)

Are you growing confused? We categorically are!

Weak Side Number 2: The very same email folder structure

The email folder arrangement on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too irreparably.

Downside Number 3: An utter shortage of domain manipulation tools

Do we have to mention the total absence of a modern domain administration GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" menu at all. That's an enormous disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Point Number 4: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, max three)

How about the demand for an additional login to access the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management menu? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting distributor. Sometimes, depending on the billing transaction platform (especially meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting service provider is using, the enthusiastic clients can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Problem Number 5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel menus to pick up... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting service providers:

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