cPanel Website Hosting Uncovered

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on today's web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which provides a great amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying the very same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace offer literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

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

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an average chap who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k website hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names in the world will offer you the very same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably covered most web hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number One: A moronic domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, however, be very careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the hosting server, since they all are placed 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you growing confused? We absolutely are!

Negative Point No.2: The same electronic mail folder system

The mail folder arrangement on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly fortify their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too seriously.

Weak Side No.3: An entire shortage of domain name manipulation sections

Do we have to cite the entire absence of a modern domain name management GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a big inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Shortcoming No.4: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the need for another login to avail of the billing, domain name and technical support management software? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting service provider. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing platform (especially built for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting company is availing of, the devoted customers can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing/domain name management software; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Point Number 5: 120+ web hosting CP menus to memorize... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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