cPanel Website Hosting Unmasked

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the present website hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes a huge amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering absolutely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market offer literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The web hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an ordinary chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands across the world will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the present-day hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

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

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably answered all website hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament No.1: A foolish domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated 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. Discover for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

Are you growing nonplussed? We clearly are!

Negative Point Number Two: The same email folder arrangement

The email folder structure on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly strengthen their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too irreparably.

Inconvenience No.3: A total shortage of domain administration tools

Do we have to cite the thorough shortage of a modern domain manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" interface at all. That's an enormous shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Problem Number Four: Many user login places (min 2, max three)

How about the need for an additional login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration menu? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting service provider. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (especially invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the keen customers can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Point Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP menus to pick up... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a fine idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better memorize them rapidly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting distributors:

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