cPanel Website Hosting Unmasked

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting market are generated by a very insubstantial business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which furnishes a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing one and the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting market furnish the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. 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 2%, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are only an average person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200,000 website hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands around the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the current web hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably covered all website hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number 1: A laughable domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you growing perplexed? We certainly are!

Negative Sign No.2: The same e-mail folder system

The electronic mail folder structure on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Shortcoming No.3: A thorough deficiency of domain administration menus

Do we have to mention the absolute lack of a modern domain manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a gigantic drawback. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Weakness Number Four: Many user login locations (min 2, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to use the billing, domain and technical support administration interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting service provider. Sometimes, based on the billing transaction tool (especially intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting firm is making use of, the keen users can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Problem No.5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP sections to pick up... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...