cPanel Web Hosting Revealed

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which supplies an enormous number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering one and the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market supply one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/Control Panel option. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an ordinary bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k web hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different hosting brand names all over the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the current website hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel hosting solution

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

Negative Aspect Number 1: A moronic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder system is:

Are you growing confused? We definitely are!

Weak Side Number 2: The same electronic mail folder configuration

The mail folder configuration on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly increase their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too irretrievably.

Downside No.3: A thorough absence of domain manipulation interfaces

Do we have to point out the total absence of a contemporary domain administration tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a mammoth weakness. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Weak Side No.4: Many login locations (min two, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to use the billing, domain name and technical support management GUI? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting provider. Occasionally, based on the invoice transaction system (principally intended for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting company is using, the avid users can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management section; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Weakness No.5: More than 120 web hosting CP departments to grasp... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them fast... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting suppliers:

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...