cPanel Website Hosting Unveiled

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the present website hosting market are furnished by a very insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which furnishes a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing one and the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace provide one and the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only a normal bloke who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brands worldwide will give you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps satisfied all website hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point No.1: A foolish domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra watchful not to remove completely 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 domain names are quite easy to remove on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very 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 remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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 becoming puzzled? We surely are!

Downside Number 2: The same email folder system

The mail folder arrangement on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly reinforce their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too irreparably.

Negative Point Number 3: A total absence of domain administration sections

Do we need to cite the sheer deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a considerable problem. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Predicament No.4: Many user login places (minimum two, max three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to use the invoicing, domain and tech support management software solution? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting service provider. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (especially created for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting service provider is using, the earnest users can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration section; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Weakness No.5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP areas to get familiar with... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better grasp them quickly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting corporations:

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