cPanel Website Hosting Uncovered

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the present hosting market are generated by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which furnishes an enormous amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering precisely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace provide one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200k "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a regular person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web pages. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k website hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the present website hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps met all web hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are situated 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 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. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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 name)
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 becoming bewildered? We definitely are!

Disadvantage Number Two: The same mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly increase their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too severely.

Weakness Number 3: An absolute shortage of domain manipulation GUIs

Do we have to cite the total deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" interface at all. That's a big problem. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Weak Point Number 4: Multiple user login places (min two, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to access the invoicing, domain and tech support management interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting distributor. Now and then, depending on the invoicing transaction system (principally built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting supplier is utilizing, the ardent customers can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain name administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel departments to pick up... fast

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ departments inside the hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting distributors:

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