Definition of cPanel Hosting

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on today's website hosting marketplace are provided by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which generates an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing absolutely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the whole website hosting market furnish exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200,000 "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an average fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web pages. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k website hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brand names around the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the contemporary website hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably answered most web hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side No.1: A dumb domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next 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 delete on the server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
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)

Are you getting confused? We definitely are!

Predicament Number 2: The very same email folder system

The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly enhance their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too badly.

Negative Sign No.3: An utter deficiency of domain administration user interfaces

Do we have to bring up the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain administration tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" interface at all. That's a gigantic weakness. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Disadvantage Number 4: Numerous user login locations (min 2, maximum three)

How about the need for an additional login to access the invoicing, domain and technical support administration user interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting service provider. Occasionally, based on the billing transaction system (principally designed for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting corporation is availing of, the devoted customers can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain administration software solution; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty Control Panel departments to pick up... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better learn them fast... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...