cPanel Web Hosting Revealed

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the current web hosting market are generated by a quite unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing segment, which provides an enormous amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing absolutely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market provide absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200k "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a normal chap who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web sites. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brands around the world will give you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the present web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a great strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably covered all web hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage No.1: A stupid domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you growing nonplussed? We certainly are!

Negative Point Number Two: The very same email folder setup

The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly enhance their faith in God when managing the email folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too seriously.

Negative Aspect Number 3: A complete shortage of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we need to bring up the absolute shortage of a modern domain manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a gigantic downside. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Negative Point Number Four: Multiple user login places (min two, max 3)

What about the demand for another login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration section? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting firm. At times, depending on the invoicing platform (principally devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting company is utilizing, the zealous users can end up with two additional login locations (1: the billing/domain name administration user interface; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Shortcoming No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel areas to memorize... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them fast... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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