cPanel Web Hosting Uncovered

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the current web hosting market are furnished by a quite unsubstantial business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies a vast quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying exactly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace supply the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a regular bloke who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands in the world will offer you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the contemporary website hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great 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 pros and cons of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably satisfied most web hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness No.1: A dumb domain folder system

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra careful not to delete entirely 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you getting bewildered? We undeniably are!

Negative Side Number 2: The same email folder system

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly strengthen their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too severely.

Problem Number Three: A complete shortage of domain administration sections

Do we need to bring up the thorough lack of a modern domain management platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a considerable inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Problem Number 4: Numerous login locations (min two, max 3)

How about the necessity for an extra login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software solution? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting company. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing tool (especially devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the zealous clients can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP areas to get acquainted with... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better pick them up promptly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting service providers:

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