cPanel Website Hosting Disclosed

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting marketplace are generated by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing segment, which generates a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet providing absolutely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace furnish precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

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

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a normal person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 web hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands around the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the contemporary web hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps covered most hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side Number 1: A moronic domain name folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call 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 delete on the web hosting server, since they all are set up 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 name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

Are you becoming perplexed? We positively are!

Predicament Number 2: The same e-mail folder setup

The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too harshly.

Shortcoming Number Three: A total absence of domain management user interfaces

Do we need to refer to the thorough shortage of a contemporary domain management GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" tool at all. That's a colossal inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Weak Side Number 4: Multiple user login locations (min two, max three)

What about the demand for another login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration tool? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting company. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (especially intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting corporation is availing of, the keen clients can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name administration system; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Downside No.5: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel menus to get to know... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting service providers:

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