cPanel Hosting Unmasked

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the current website hosting market are furnished by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-scale business segment, which furnishes a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying exactly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market supply precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200k "website hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an ordinary person who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and online portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k web hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names in the world will give you literally the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably covered most hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side Number One: A foolish domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the hosting server, since they all are located 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 name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

Are you growing confused? We unquestionably are!

Drawback Number Two: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly increase their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too irreparably.

Downside Number Three: A total shortage of domain management GUIs

Do we need to mention the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain administration GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" menu at all. That's an enormous disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Drawback Number 4: Many login places (min 2, maximum three)

How about the demand for an additional login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting firm. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing platform (especially conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting service provider is utilizing, the devoted users can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain name administration menu; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming No.5: 120+ website hosting Control Panel areas to get familiar with... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting companies:

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