cPanel Hosting Unveiled

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the current web hosting market are generated by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which furnishes a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing absolutely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the entire hosting marketplace provide the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a normal chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and websites. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brands across the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present-day website hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly fulfilled most website hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you getting baffled? We definitely are!

Inconvenience No.2: The same mail folder structure

The email folder arrangement on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly increase their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too severely.

Weak Side No.3: A thorough shortage of domain manipulation sections

Do we need to point out the sheer absence of a contemporary domain management user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a major downside. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Predicament Number 4: Many user login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the need for an additional login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting company. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (especially devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the earnest customers can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: 120+ hosting CP departments to get acquainted with... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them fast... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting distributors:

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