cPanel Web Hosting Disclosed

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insignificant business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which provides an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying absolutely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace offer precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are just a regular bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 website hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names around the world will give you strictly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the current website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly met all website hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness No.1: A moronic domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, 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 erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how marvelous 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 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)
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 confused? We certainly are!

Negative Aspect Number Two: The very same mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly fortify their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too badly.

Negative Side No.3: An utter shortage of domain management sections

Do we have to cite the utter lack of a contemporary domain name administration GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois details, shield the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" interface at all. That's a big problem. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Inconvenience Number Four: Numerous login locations (min two, max 3)

What about the demand for an additional login to use the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration software solution? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting supplier. At times, depending on the billing platform (especially intended for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting provider is utilizing, the devoted users can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Problem Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP menus to become acquainted with... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting vendors:

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