cPanel Web Hosting Revealed

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the present web hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which furnishes a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering the very same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market offer the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

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

The hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a normal person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names worldwide will give you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the current web hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably satisfied most web hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness No.1: A ludicrous domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, since 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder system is:

Are you growing bewildered? We certainly are!

Predicament Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder configuration

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly fortify their belief in God when handling the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Negative Point Number Three: An utter deficiency of domain administration sections

Do we need to cite the entire absence of a modern domain administration tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" tool at all. That's a vast problem. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Disadvantage Number 4: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the need for another login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management user interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting service provider. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (especially designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting distributor is making use of, the devoted clients can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration software; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: More than 120 web hosting CP menus to pick up... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting providers:

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