cPanel Hosting Definition

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on the current web hosting market are provided by a very insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which supplies a vast amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering strictly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market provide literally the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are only a normal person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development procedures 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 alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names all over the world will give you the very same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the present-day hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably met most website hosting market prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect No.1: A laughable domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very watchful not to erase 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 quite simple to delete on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known 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 erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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 name)

Are you becoming nonplussed? We surely are!

Problem 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 domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly enhance their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too fatally.

Downside Number Three: An entire absence of domain manipulation options

Do we have to bring up the complete lack of a modern domain management interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" interface at all. That's a vast inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Shortcoming Number 4: Multiple user login locations (min two, max three)

What about the need for another login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration software platform? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting company. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (especially created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting vendor is using, the eager customers can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support software), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting CP departments to grasp... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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