cPanel Website Hosting Revealed

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the current website hosting marketplace are generated by a quite inconsiderable business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which supplies an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing the very same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace provide precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are merely an average person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 website hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brand names around the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the current website hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting company 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 1 in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps answered all website hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number One: A foolish domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be very attentive not to remove 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 simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you growing bewildered? We clearly are!

Problem No.2: The very same email folder arrangement

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too irretrievably.

Weak Point Number Three: A thorough lack of domain manipulation GUIs

Do we need to cite the total shortage of a contemporary domain management GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" section at all. That's a great downside. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Negative Point Number Four: Many login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the demand for an additional login to avail of the billing, domain name and technical support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting supplier. Now and then, on the basis of the billing system (principally conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting service provider is utilizing, the devoted clients can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: More than 120 website hosting CP areas to get to know... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better grasp them promptly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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