cPanel Website Hosting Definition

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the current web hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which furnishes an enormous number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting market supply absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/hosting CP option. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200k "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a regular guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web pages. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brand names all over the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present web hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly met all web hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming Number 1: A stupid domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed 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. Determine for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you getting baffled? We surely are!

Weakness No.2: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The mail folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly strengthen their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too severely.

Weak Point Number Three: A thorough shortage of domain manipulation user interfaces

Do we need to point out the thorough lack of a modern domain manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" tool at all. That's a considerable disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Negative Side Number 4: Numerous login places (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the need for an extra login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management section? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting supplier. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (principally devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is using, the eager customers can end up with two additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain management GUI; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Drawback No.5: More than one hundred and twenty CP menus to become familiar with... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting corporations:

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