Definition of cPanel Hosting

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which generates an immense number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing strictly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace furnish strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, 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 two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200k "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an average guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different hosting brand names around the world will give you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly fulfilled all web hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point Number 1: A ludicrous domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known 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 delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
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 confused? We certainly are!

Negative Side Number 2: The same electronic mail folder system

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly reinforce their faith in God when managing the email folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too severely.

Shortcoming No.3: An utter absence of domain name management GUIs

Do we need to bring up the entire shortage of a modern domain manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's an enormous downside. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Negative Point No.4: Numerous user login places (min two, maximum three)

What about the need for an extra login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting service provider. Sometimes, based on the billing platform (principally conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting distributor is utilizing, the devoted customers can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management software platform; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel sections to pick up... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a superb idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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