cPanel Website Hosting Unmasked

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present web hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite inconsiderable business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which furnishes an immense number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole hosting marketplace offer the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly fulfilled most web hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number One: A foolish domain folder system

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the hosting server, since they all are created 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
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)

Are you getting confused? We positively are!

Predicament Number 2: The very same email folder system

The mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly increase their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too fatally.

Weakness Number Three: An absolute lack of domain name administration sections

Do we need to refer to the sheer shortage of a contemporary domain name management menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a huge downside. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Downside No.4: Multiple user login places (min 2, maximum three)

What about the need for an additional login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration software platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting corporation. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing system (principally designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the devoted users can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain administration software solution; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Side Number Five: More than 120 web hosting CP departments to learn... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better memorize them rapidly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting vendors:

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