Definition of cPanel Web Hosting

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the present web hosting market are supplied by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which provides a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing precisely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace offer one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are only a normal chap who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brand names across the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably met all website hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign No.1: A stupid domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent 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 remove on the web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous 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 domains, please. Observe for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder system 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 name)

Are you getting confused? We categorically are!

Shortcoming Number Two: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The mail folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly fortify their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too gravely.

Negative Point Number 3: A sheer absence of domain name manipulation interfaces

Do we need to bring up the absolute deficiency of a modern domain management menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois info, secure the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" menu at all. That's an enormous downside. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Numerous user login places (minimum two, max 3)

What about the demand for another login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and technical support management section? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting corporation. Now and then, depending on the billing transaction system (especially intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting service provider is availing of, the ardent customers can end up with two extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel menus to get familiar with... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better learn them swiftly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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