Definition of cPanel Website Hosting

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel hosting offers on today's web hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering precisely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market offer one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an average guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k website hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands across the world will give you literally the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps satisfied most website hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness No.1: A stupid domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the server, since they all are situated 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you becoming disorientated? We absolutely are!

Inconvenience Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder configuration

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too fatally.

Downside Number 3: An entire shortage of domain name management options

Do we need to mention the total shortage of a contemporary domain administration user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a huge downside. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Side Number Four: Many login places (min 2, maximum three)

How about the need for an extra login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration section? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (particularly intended for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting provider is making use of, the earnest users can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain name administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel areas to memorize... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting suppliers:

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