cPanel Website Hosting Unmasked

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offerings on the current web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insignificant marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which supplies an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing exactly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/CP alternative. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200k "Website Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The Website Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only a regular guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 website hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present web hosting market is... Full stop.

The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps answered all web hosting market requirements. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number 1: A dumb domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known 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 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 growing puzzled? We definitely are!

Negative Aspect Number 2: The very same email folder system

The email folder configuration on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly reinforce their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too gravely.

Downside Number 3: An absolute lack of domain name manipulation sections

Do we need to point out the sheer absence of a contemporary domain management GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a considerable inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Disadvantage Number Four: Numerous login places (min two, max three)

How about the demand for an extra login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and technical support management menu? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Website Hosting firm. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (particularly developed for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting vendor is using, the devoted customers can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name management tool; 2: the ticket support menu), ending up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side No.5: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel sections to pick up... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ areas inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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