cPanel Website Hosting Definition

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on today's website hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which provides a great quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing the very same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market offer literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200,000 "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only a regular person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can select? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present website hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly fulfilled most web hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament No.1: A laughable domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent 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 web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain 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 name)
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 getting bewildered? We surely are!

Negative Sign No.2: The same mail folder arrangement

The mail folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly reinforce their belief in God when handling the email folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too severely.

Inconvenience Number 3: An utter absence of domain administration user interfaces

Do we need to bring up the sheer shortage of a contemporary domain name management platform - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a gigantic predicament. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, max three)

How about the need for another login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration GUI? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting distributor. Occasionally, based on the invoice transaction system (especially tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting distributor is availing of, the avid clients can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Problem No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel areas to grasp... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 departments inside the web hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting suppliers:

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