cPanel Web Hosting Disclosed

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the present website hosting market are supplied by a very insubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which provides a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing exactly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace provide exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a regular bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brands across the world will give you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on today's website hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly covered most web hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number 1: A stupid domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you getting nonplussed? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Side No.2: The very same mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly strengthen their belief in God when handling the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to muck things up too seriously.

Problem Number 3: An absolute absence of domain name administration GUIs

Do we have to bring up the utter deficiency of a contemporary domain name management user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" section at all. That's a mammoth drawback. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Downside No.4: Multiple login places (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to access the billing transaction, domain and technical support management menu? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting service provider. Now and then, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (principally tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting vendor is using, the devoted users can wind up with two extra logins (1: the billing/domain name management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Problem No.5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel departments to pick up... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to learn each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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