cPanel Hosting Unveiled

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing absolutely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting market supply the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a regular bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and online portals. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names in the world will give you the very same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present-day website hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps answered all web hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming Number One: A stupid domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the web 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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)

Are you becoming puzzled? We absolutely are!

Problem Number 2: The very same mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly increase their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too badly.

Weakness Number 3: An absolute absence of domain management sections

Do we have to refer to the total deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a great predicament. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...

Negative Sign Number Four: Many user login places (min two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to utilize the invoicing, domain and technical support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting distributor. At times, on the basis of the billing system (particularly conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting supplier is using, the zealous users can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain name administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming No.5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP sections to get to know... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's quite insolent 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? Remark that one too...