cPanel Web Hosting Unveiled

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offers on today's web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite inconsiderable business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which supplies an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing the very same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace supply the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200k "Web Hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The Web Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just a normal fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web pages. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k website hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands across the world will give you the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

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

The strong and weak points of the cPanel Web Hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably fulfilled all hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience Number One: A laughable domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra careful not to delete 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 domains are quite easy to erase on the server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular 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 erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

Are you growing baffled? We absolutely are!

Disadvantage Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder structure

The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too harshly.

Disadvantage Number 3: An absolute shortage of domain name administration interfaces

Do we need to point out the entire shortage of a modern domain manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a considerable downside. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Inconvenience No.4: Multiple login places (minimum 2, max three)

How about the demand for an additional login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management software? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Web Hosting firm. Occasionally, based on the invoicing transaction tool (particularly created for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting provider is utilizing, the eager clients can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name management system; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Side No.5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting CP departments to get to know... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting vendors:

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