cPanel Hosting Unveiled

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel Hosting offers on today's hosting market are furnished by a quite insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which supplies a vast quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering one and the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a normal fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200,000 website hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present-day hosting marketplace is... Period.

The Hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel Hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably covered most web hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number 1: A dumb domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder system is:

Are you getting confused? We certainly are!

Shortcoming Number Two: The very same email folder structure

The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too harshly.

Negative Aspect No.3: A sheer shortage of domain management interfaces

Do we have to bring up the entire absence of a contemporary domain manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a considerable shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Disadvantage Number 4: Many login places (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an extra login to use the invoicing, domain name and technical support management user interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Hosting company. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (principally conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel Hosting provider is availing of, the devoted customers can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management interface; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to become familiar with... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting companies:

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