cPanel Website Hosting Definition

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on today's website hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small business segment, which generates a vast number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering exactly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace supply the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200,000 "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a normal bloke who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 website hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands worldwide will give you the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on today's web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

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

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps answered most web hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number One: A ludicrous domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely cautious not to remove entirely 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 easy to erase on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you growing perplexed? We categorically are!

Negative Aspect No.2: The same electronic mail folder structure

The mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly fortify their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too badly.

Inconvenience No.3: A complete absence of domain name manipulation menus

Do we need to mention the utter absence of a contemporary domain management GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" menu at all. That's a big predicament. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Disadvantage Number 4: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to access the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration section? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting corporation. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction system (principally devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting vendor is utilizing, the eager customers can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Point Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP areas to become acquainted with... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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