cPanel Web Hosting Unmasked

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present-day hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which provides an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying precisely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market supply the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200k "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The web hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brands in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably answered all hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number 1: A stupid domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

Are you growing nonplussed? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Side Number Two: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The mail folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly increase their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too seriously.

Weak Point Number Three: An entire absence of domain administration sections

Do we have to refer to the absolute shortage of a modern domain administration GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" tool at all. That's an immense downside. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, max three)

How about the demand for an extra login to access the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration user interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting company. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing platform (principally made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is utilizing, the enthusiastic users can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration system; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP menus to get acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting vendors:

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