cPanel Web Hosting Unveiled

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on today's website hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size business niche, which furnishes a great number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying literally the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market provide literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an ordinary guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and online portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names worldwide will offer you the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the current website hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps fulfilled all web hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number 1: A moronic domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain)
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)
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 growing baffled? We absolutely are!

Negative Side Number 2: The very same email folder arrangement

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly strengthen their faith in God when handling the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too irreparably.

Downside Number 3: An utter deficiency of domain name manipulation interfaces

Do we have to bring up the complete deficiency of a modern domain manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a considerable shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Many login places (min 2, max three)

What about the demand for an extra login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting distributor. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (principally developed for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting company is using, the keen users can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name administration platform; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel areas to pick up... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them swiftly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting suppliers:

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