cPanel Web Hosting Revealed

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which provides an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole hosting marketplace provide the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200,000 "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an ordinary fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k web hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brands in the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the current website hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps covered all website hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number One: A laughable domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra cautious not to remove entirely 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). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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 name)

Are you growing bewildered? We definitely are!

Inconvenience No.2: The same mail folder structure

The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too gravely.

Disadvantage No.3: An absolute lack of domain administration options

Do we have to refer to the absolute lack of a modern domain name management GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a vast problem. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Drawback No.4: Many login places (min two, max three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to access the billing, domain and tech support administration system? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting service provider. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing transaction system (especially built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the earnest clients can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Drawback No.5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel sections to memorize... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them promptly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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