cPanel Web Hosting Definition

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the current web hosting market are generated by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which supplies a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying precisely 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 website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace offer strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "web hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The web hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an ordinary guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200,000 website hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names worldwide will give you literally the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present-day hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably covered most website hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you getting confused? We doubtlessly are!

Predicament No.2: The same email folder structure

The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Negative Sign No.3: A total lack of domain administration tools

Do we have to point out the sheer lack of a contemporary domain management GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a colossal weakness. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Negative Point No.4: Numerous user login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the demand for an additional login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration software solution? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting company. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction platform (principally created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the eager users can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain name administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software), ending up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: More than 120 web hosting CP areas to pick up... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to learn each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them fast... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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