cPanel Web Hosting Unmasked

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on today's website hosting market are furnished by a quite insignificant business segment (when it comes to annual money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which provides an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying one and the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market provide precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200k "hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are merely an ordinary bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brands worldwide will offer you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps answered all website hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage No.1: A stupid domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
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)

Are you becoming baffled? We positively are!

Problem Number 2: The same electronic mail folder system

The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Weak Point Number Three: A complete shortage of domain name manipulation menus

Do we need to refer to the utter shortage of a modern domain name administration tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a considerable predicament. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Multiple login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the need for another login to use the invoicing, domain and tech support administration interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting supplier. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (particularly devised for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting firm is making use of, the earnest users can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing/domain management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP areas to get familiar with... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a great idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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