cPanel Web Hosting Uncovered

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on the current website hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which generates a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing strictly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace furnish absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/CP alternative. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200,000 "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are merely a normal chap who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brand names in the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the contemporary website hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly fulfilled all web hosting industry preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number One: A laughable domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain 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 name)
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)
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 confused? We definitely are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The very same email folder arrangement

The mail folder structure on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly strengthen their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too severely.

Disadvantage Number Three: An utter shortage of domain name administration menus

Do we need to point out the thorough lack of a contemporary domain manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an immense inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Inconvenience No.4: Many login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the need for an additional login to access the invoicing, domain and tech support administration software platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting service provider. At times, depending on the invoicing system (principally created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting supplier is using, the ardent users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel departments to get familiar with... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, 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...