cPanel Hosting Unmasked

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present web hosting market are supplied by a very insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which generates an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing exactly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting market supply one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

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

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only an ordinary chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200,000 web hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands worldwide will give you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the current web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps covered most web hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you becoming nonplussed? We clearly are!

Weakness No.2: The same e-mail folder configuration

The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too gravely.

Shortcoming Number 3: An utter deficiency of domain manipulation menus

Do we need to mention the complete shortage of a modern domain name manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an immense weakness. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Inconvenience Number Four: Many user login places (min 2, max 3)

How about the necessity for another login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting distributor. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (principally made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the eager users can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain name administration user interface; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: More than a hundred and twenty Control Panel menus to grasp... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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