cPanel Web Hosting Uncovered

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the current web hosting marketplace are provided by a very unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which supplies a vast amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing literally the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace supply literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

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

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting brand names. Assume you are only an average person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands across the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the current website hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably fulfilled all website hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number One: A laughable domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated 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. Verify for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
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 getting nonplussed? We undoubtedly are!

Negative Aspect Number 2: The very same email folder structure

The email folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too gravely.

Negative Side Number Three: A sheer absence of domain name management user interfaces

Do we need to bring up the sheer absence of a modern domain name manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois details, shield the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" interface at all. That's a huge weakness. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Shortcoming Number 4: Many user login places (min two, maximum 3)

What about the need for an additional login to use the invoicing, domain name and tech support management software solution? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting supplier. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction platform (particularly made for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting supplier is making use of, the ardent customers can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain name administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: 120+ website hosting Control Panel sections to get familiar with... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better get to know them quickly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting suppliers:

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