cPanel Hosting Revealed

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are generated by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which supplies an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing one and the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace furnish the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is just one 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, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an average guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and online portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands across the world will give you exactly the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the current web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably met most web hosting business requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number 1: An idiotic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 name)

Are you getting disorientated? We absolutely are!

Downside Number 2: The same email folder configuration

The mail folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly reinforce their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too fatally.

Negative Aspect Number Three: A thorough deficiency of domain name management options

Do we need to point out the total lack of a modern domain management platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a gigantic drawback. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Disadvantage Number Four: Multiple login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the demand for another login to use the invoicing, domain and technical support management software? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting distributor. Sometimes, based on the invoicing transaction platform (particularly tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting provider is using, the keen customers can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel departments to learn... fast

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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