cPanel Website Hosting Unmasked

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insignificant business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which provides a huge number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying exactly 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 web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market furnish exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are only a normal bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brands worldwide will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present-day web hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps satisfied all web hosting industry prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number One: An idiotic domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed 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. Determine for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you growing perplexed? We surely are!

Weakness Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder system

The mail folder configuration on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly enhance their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too fatally.

Negative Side Number 3: A total absence of domain name management GUIs

Do we have to point out the utter absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a huge inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Disadvantage Number 4: Multiple user login locations (min 2, max 3)

How about the need for an extra login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration system? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting distributor. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction platform (especially tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting provider is using, the zealous clients can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: 120+ CP departments to pick up... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them fast... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...