Definition of cPanel Hosting

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offers on today's web hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes an enormous quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing exactly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market furnish precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200,000 "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are just a normal person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names across the world will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present-day hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

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

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably answered all website hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage No.1: A foolish domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call 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 remove on the web server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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 getting perplexed? We clearly are!

Negative Aspect No.2: The very same e-mail folder configuration

The mail folder arrangement on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly enhance their belief in God when handling the email folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too badly.

Inconvenience Number Three: A total absence of domain name management sections

Do we have to bring up the sheer lack of a modern domain name administration user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois information, shield the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a huge problem. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Shortcoming Number 4: Numerous login places (minimum two, max 3)

How about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the invoicing, domain and tech support administration software platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting service provider. At times, on the basis of the billing transaction system (principally meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting vendor is utilizing, the keen users can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management section; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Inconvenience Number Five: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel menus to pick up... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them swiftly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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