Definition of cPanel Hosting

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Hosting offers on today's website hosting market are generated by a very insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small marketing niche, which provides a vast amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing literally the same solutions: mainly 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 web hosting marketplace supply strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "Hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The Hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an average fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands across the world will offer you the very same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present web hosting market is... Full stop.

The Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel Hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably met all web hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience Number One: A ludicrous domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra cautious not to delete 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 very easy to erase on the hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you getting puzzled? We clearly are!

Shortcoming Number Two: The very same mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder configuration on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly fortify their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too harshly.

Inconvenience Number 3: A thorough shortage of domain manipulation interfaces

Do we need to mention the utter absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois info, secure the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" interface at all. That's an immense weakness. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Aspect No.4: Many login places (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the need for an additional login to access the billing, domain name and technical support management software solution? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Hosting service provider. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing transaction system (particularly tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel Hosting vendor is availing of, the ardent customers can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain administration software platform; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: 120+ website hosting CP areas to become familiar with... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting providers:

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