cPanel Website Hosting Uncovered

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the present website hosting market are generated by a quite insubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which generates an enormous quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering strictly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace furnish the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200,000 "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are just a normal chap who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names around the world will give you the very same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the contemporary website hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably satisfied all web hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number One: A stupid domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
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)
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)

Are you becoming bewildered? We clearly are!

Problem No.2: The very same e-mail folder structure

The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly fortify their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too severely.

Predicament Number 3: A total absence of domain administration interfaces

Do we need to point out the absolute absence of a contemporary domain administration user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's an enormous disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Negative Side Number 4: Multiple login locations (minimum two, max three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management software platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting provider. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction tool (particularly developed for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting service provider is using, the avid customers can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Downside No.5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP departments to learn... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to learn each of them. And you'd better get to know them swiftly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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