cPanel Hosting Unveiled

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insignificant marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which provides a vast number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting market provide absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200k "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a regular guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200,000 website hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names worldwide will give you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the present web hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably met all web hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number 1: A dumb domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra watchful not to erase 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 domain names are quite easy to delete on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located 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 configuration is:

Are you becoming puzzled? We clearly are!

Predicament Number 2: The same email folder arrangement

The mail folder configuration on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly enhance their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too irreparably.

Problem No.3: An entire deficiency of domain name management interfaces

Do we need to bring up the utter shortage of a modern domain name manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois information, shield the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a big downside. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Weakness Number 4: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the need for another login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting company. At times, based on the invoice transaction platform (particularly built for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting supplier is availing of, the avid users can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number 5: More than 120 website hosting CP departments to learn... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them swiftly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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