cPanel Hosting Revealed

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the current web hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insubstantial business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which generates a huge amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering precisely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the whole web hosting market supply the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

200k "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are only a regular guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and online portals. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the current web hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a great strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly met all web hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub 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 delete on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
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 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 growing puzzled? We unquestionably are!

Downside Number Two: The very same mail folder system

The email folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too harshly.

Weak Point Number 3: An entire lack of domain name manipulation sections

Do we need to point out the entire deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a gigantic predicament. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

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

What about the necessity for an additional login to use the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting firm. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction platform (particularly meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the zealous customers can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration menu; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number Five: 120+ hosting CP menus to grasp... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get to know them promptly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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