cPanel Web Hosting Disclosed

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which generates a great number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting market offer the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are merely a regular guy who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names all over the world will give you precisely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably fulfilled all website hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number One: A dumb domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, however, be very cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you becoming confused? We positively are!

Predicament No.2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder structure on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly enhance their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too fatally.

Inconvenience No.3: A complete shortage of domain name manipulation interfaces

Do we need to bring up the total deficiency of a contemporary domain name management user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" tool at all. That's an enormous problem. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Negative Aspect No.4: Many login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the billing, domain name and technical support management software solution? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting corporation. Sometimes, based on the billing transaction system (especially meant for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting distributor is using, the ardent users can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management menu; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel areas to get to know... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better get to know them quickly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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