cPanel Hosting Definition

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on the present website hosting market are generated by a very insubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size business niche, which provides a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing absolutely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace provide the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

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

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a regular fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands in the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably answered most website hosting business requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament No.1: A laughable domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very attentive not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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 erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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)
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 growing perplexed? We surely are!

Weakness Number Two: The same email folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly strengthen their faith in God when handling the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too gravely.

Weak Side Number Three: A sheer absence of domain name management interfaces

Do we have to bring up the total absence of a contemporary domain administration menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" interface at all. That's a mammoth shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Problem No.4: Many login places (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the need for an extra login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting vendor. At times, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (especially tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting service provider is availing of, the zealous users can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP areas to get acquainted with... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the Control Panel. It's a great idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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