cPanel Web Hosting Definition

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on today's web hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates an enormous quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing one and the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the entire hosting market offer one and the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary fellow who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k website hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands around the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the current website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps fulfilled all website hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number 1: An idiotic domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how terrific 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 puzzled? We undoubtedly are!

Negative Side Number Two: The very same email folder system

The email folder structure on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly reinforce their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irreparably.

Inconvenience No.3: An utter shortage of domain management interfaces

Do we need to refer to the absolute deficiency of a modern domain name administration platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a big predicament. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Sign Number 4: Numerous login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the need for an additional login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting provider. At times, based on the invoicing transaction system (particularly created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the zealous clients can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management section; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: 120+ hosting CP menus to get familiar with... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a great idea to learn each of them. And you'd better learn them rapidly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting distributors:

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