cPanel Web Hosting Unveiled

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the present-day web hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which provides an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying precisely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole hosting marketplace supply literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary chap who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands all over the world will offer you the very same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on today's web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly fulfilled all web hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming Number One: A ludicrous domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated 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. Check for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain name)

Are you getting bewildered? We doubtlessly are!

Weak Side Number Two: The very same mail folder system

The mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too severely.

Negative Side Number Three: A complete lack of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we have to bring up the entire lack of a modern domain name management GUI - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a huge weakness. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Shortcoming No.4: Numerous user login places (min two, maximum three)

How about the need for another login to make use of the billing, domain and technical support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting supplier. At times, based on the invoicing transaction system (principally intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting firm is making use of, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty Control Panel sections to grasp... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better get to know them promptly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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