cPanel Web Hosting Clarified

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present web hosting market are generated by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which furnishes an enormous amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing precisely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace offer absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are merely an average guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands around the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the current web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly answered all hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side Number One: An imbecilic domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy 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 is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you becoming disorientated? We absolutely are!

Weak Point Number Two: The same electronic mail folder structure

The mail folder arrangement on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly increase their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too irretrievably.

Negative Side Number 3: A thorough lack of domain name manipulation sections

Do we have to point out the total deficiency of a contemporary domain administration GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an enormous problem. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Side Number Four: Multiple user login locations (min two, max three)

How about the demand for an additional login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management system? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting supplier. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (particularly devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the keen customers can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the billing/domain administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Problem Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP menus to grasp... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them swiftly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting providers:

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