cPanel Web Hosting Revealed

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the present web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which furnishes an immense quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market furnish absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a normal bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k website hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names in the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

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

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

Downside No.1: An imbecilic domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra careful not to erase 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 very easy to erase on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you getting disorientated? We unquestionably are!

Negative Aspect No.2: The same e-mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly increase their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too seriously.

Predicament Number Three: An entire deficiency of domain name management tools

Do we need to refer to the thorough lack of a contemporary domain name management user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a considerable weakness. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Problem Number Four: Multiple user login locations (minimum two, max 3)

What about the demand for another login to utilize the billing, domain name and technical support administration GUI? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting provider. At times, on the basis of the invoicing system (particularly intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting vendor is availing of, the avid clients can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to pick up... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 areas inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting vendors:

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...