cPanel Web Hosting Revealed

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are supplied by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which provides a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing one and the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an average chap who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web pages. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k website hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different hosting brands in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on today's web hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably satisfied all hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect No.1: A moronic domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain name)

Are you growing confused? We unquestionably are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder setup

The mail folder structure on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly fortify their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too seriously.

Downside Number Three: An absolute deficiency of domain administration sections

Do we need to cite the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain management menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's an immense inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Weakness Number 4: Numerous login locations (min two, maximum three)

How about the need for another login to utilize the billing, domain name and tech support management menu? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting distributor. At times, based on the invoicing system (principally created for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting vendor is using, the devoted customers can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP menus to grasp... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting companies:

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