Definition of cPanel Website Hosting

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the current hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insignificant marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-size business niche, which generates a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing the very same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire hosting marketplace supply exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

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

The web hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are just an average bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and online portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200k web hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brand names across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on today's hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably met all hosting market prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side Number One: A moronic domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 name)
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 perplexed? We certainly are!

Problem No.2: The very same mail folder arrangement

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly enhance their faith in God when handling the email folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too severely.

Negative Side Number Three: A sheer shortage of domain name administration menus

Do we need to cite the sheer absence of a modern domain name management menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's an immense drawback. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...

Problem Number Four: Many user login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an extra login to use the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management software? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting distributor. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing platform (particularly developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the devoted customers can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management software solution; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Problem Number Five: 120+ website hosting Control Panel menus to get to know... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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