Definition of cPanel Website Hosting

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are supplied by a very unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which provides a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering absolutely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace provide one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200k "Website Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The Website Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only a normal bloke who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and websites. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands worldwide will offer you literally the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel Website Hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably covered most website hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience No.1: A moronic domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub 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 quite easy to remove on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you becoming bewildered? We positively are!

Weak Side Number 2: The same e-mail folder system

The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irreparably.

Weakness Number Three: A thorough shortage of domain name manipulation tools

Do we need to mention the entire shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" interface at all. That's an immense disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Inconvenience Number Four: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to make use of the billing, domain name and tech support administration GUI? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Website Hosting supplier. At times, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (principally invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel Website Hosting supplier is utilizing, the enthusiastic clients can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel areas to become acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 menus inside the website hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, 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? Mark that one too...