cPanel Website Hosting Unmasked

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offers on the present-day website hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insignificant marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which provides a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing precisely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market supply literally the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "Website Hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The Website Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can select? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200k website hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names across the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all part of

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

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel Website Hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably fulfilled all web hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point Number One: A moronic domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the web server, because 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 erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you getting baffled? We clearly are!

Drawback Number Two: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The email folder arrangement on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly enhance their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too severely.

Predicament Number Three: An utter lack of domain management user interfaces

Do we need to point out the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain name management platform - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" interface at all. That's a colossal predicament. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Negative Point Number Four: Many user login locations (minimum 2, max three)

How about the demand for an extra login to access the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Website Hosting corporation. At times, depending on the billing transaction platform (particularly intended for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting firm is making use of, the earnest clients can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration user interface; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Problem No.5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel departments to grasp... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a superb idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting distributors:

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