cPanel Web Hosting Unmasked

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting marketplace are generated by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-sized business segment, which furnishes an enormous amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying absolutely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market furnish one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brand names around the world will give you the very same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on today's web hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps fulfilled most website hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number One: A ludicrous domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you getting bewildered? We categorically are!

Problem Number Two: The very same email folder setup

The electronic mail folder structure on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly reinforce their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too fatally.

Problem Number Three: An absolute absence of domain management sections

Do we have to refer to the total absence of a contemporary domain manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a major disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Point Number Four: Numerous login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the need for another login to access the billing, domain name and tech support administration software platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting service provider. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction platform (principally devised for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting service provider is using, the ardent clients can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain management section; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: More than 120 hosting CP departments to memorize... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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