cPanel Website Hosting Revealed

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which supplies an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace offer precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

200k "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply an average person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and online portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k website hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps covered most hosting market prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number 1: A foolish domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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 domain names, please. See for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder setup is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
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)

Are you growing disorientated? We certainly are!

Disadvantage Number Two: The same e-mail folder setup

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly fortify their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too badly.

Negative Point Number Three: A total shortage of domain administration interfaces

Do we need to bring up the sheer deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a vast downside. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

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

What about the need for an extra login to use the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management interface? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting corporation. At times, based on the billing system (principally designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain name administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel sections to learn... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting firms:

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