cPanel Web Hosting Revealed

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on today's web hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insignificant business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which supplies a big number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying exactly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market offer literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200,000 "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an average guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 web hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names worldwide will give you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on today's web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably covered most web hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number One: A stupid domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the web server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite 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. Discover for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you getting confused? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too irreparably.

Negative Side Number Three: A sheer shortage of domain name administration options

Do we need to point out the utter lack of a contemporary domain administration tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois info, protect the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" tool at all. That's a considerable weakness. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Predicament Number Four: Numerous user login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the billing, domain name and technical support administration menu? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting company. Now and then, on the basis of the billing tool (particularly built for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting corporation is availing of, the keen users can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel departments to become familiar with... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting corporations:

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