cPanel Website Hosting Unveiled

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the present web hosting market are generated by a quite insignificant business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which supplies a huge quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace offer strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

200k "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present website hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably fulfilled most website hosting market requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 name)
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 becoming bewildered? We definitely are!

Shortcoming Number Two: The very same mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly increase their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Negative Side Number Three: A complete lack of domain manipulation user interfaces

Do we have to bring up the entire absence of a modern domain administration interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a major shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Weakness Number 4: Many user login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an extra login to access the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration menu? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting provider. Now and then, based on the billing transaction tool (principally built for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting provider is using, the eager customers can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Sign Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to get familiar with... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them fast... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting companies:

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