cPanel Website Hosting Revealed

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on today's hosting market are supplied by a quite insignificant business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-scale business segment, which furnishes an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering exactly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market furnish one and the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an average person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web pages. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200k website hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names in the world will give you the very same cPanel Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the contemporary hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably satisfied all website hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number 1: A foolish domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent 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, since they all are placed 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you becoming perplexed? We undoubtedly are!

Downside Number Two: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder structure on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly enhance their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too irretrievably.

Weak Point No.3: A thorough absence of domain administration GUIs

Do we have to cite the utter absence of a contemporary domain name administration user interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" menu at all. That's a huge inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Problem Number 4: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, max three)

How about the demand for an extra login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting supplier. At times, depending on the invoice transaction platform (principally made for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting vendor is utilizing, the keen clients can end up with two extra login locations (1: the billing/domain name management section; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: More than 120 hosting Control Panel areas to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, 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? Remark that one as well...