cPanel Web Hosting Uncovered

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized business segment, which supplies an immense quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing precisely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace supply absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200k "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names worldwide will give you literally the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on today's hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly answered all web hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number 1: A moronic domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you growing baffled? We doubtlessly are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The same email folder system

The mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly increase their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too irretrievably.

Negative Aspect Number Three: A thorough absence of domain management user interfaces

Do we have to bring up the total lack of a contemporary domain name management menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a mammoth downside. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Inconvenience No.4: Numerous login locations (min 2, max three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management software? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting company. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction system (principally created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting distributor is using, the enthusiastic users can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration platform; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel menus to pick up... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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