cPanel Hosting Uncovered

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on today's hosting marketplace are generated by a very unsubstantial business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing the very same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting market provide the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an ordinary bloke who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web pages. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands across the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the present-day website hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps answered all hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side Number 1: A ludicrous domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to remove fully 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 very easy to erase on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

Are you growing disorientated? We surely are!

Problem No.2: The very same email folder arrangement

The mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly enhance their faith in God when managing the email folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too gravely.

Problem Number Three: An utter lack of domain name manipulation sections

Do we need to refer to the total absence of a contemporary domain manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" menu at all. That's an immense inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Disadvantage Number 4: Many login places (min two, max three)

What about the demand for another login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration software solution? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting provider. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (especially tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting corporation is using, the keen users can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management system; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: More than 120 CP menus to grasp... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a superb idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting vendors:

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