cPanel Website Hosting Revealed

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are generated by a very inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small business segment, which supplies an immense number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying the very same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace supply the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/CP choice. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200k "web hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a normal chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brands worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the current web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly fulfilled all web hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem No.1: A laughable domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be very attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are set up 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. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

Are you getting confused? We undeniably are!

Negative Point Number Two: The same email folder configuration

The email folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too gravely.

Shortcoming Number 3: A total lack of domain administration GUIs

Do we have to mention the absolute absence of a contemporary domain management interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" menu at all. That's a major disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Weak Point No.4: Many login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration system? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting vendor. Sometimes, based on the billing system (principally made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the ardent clients can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain management tool; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: More than a hundred and twenty hosting CP departments to pick up... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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