cPanel Website Hosting Unveiled

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the current web hosting market are furnished by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which provides a huge amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing precisely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace provide absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a normal bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brand names all over the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present-day web hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably met most website hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number 1: A dumb domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, 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 located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

Are you getting confused? We undoubtedly are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The same electronic mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too harshly.

Inconvenience Number 3: An absolute deficiency of domain name manipulation options

Do we have to mention the thorough deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a colossal shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Negative Sign Number 4: Multiple login locations (minimum two, max three)

What about the demand for an extra login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting firm. At times, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (especially invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting vendor is availing of, the ardent clients can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel departments to get familiar with... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a great idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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