cPanel Hosting Clarified

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on today's hosting market are supplied by a very insignificant business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which provides an immense number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying the very 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 web hosting market offer one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of 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 two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "web hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The web hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an average bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k web hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands all over the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on today's website hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly answered most website hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the hosting server, because 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 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 domain names, please. Determine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 name)
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)

Are you becoming puzzled? We unquestionably are!

Weakness Number Two: The same e-mail folder system

The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly fortify their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too gravely.

Weak Side Number Three: A total absence of domain administration tools

Do we have to bring up the complete deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" menu at all. That's a gigantic shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

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

What about the need for an additional login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration tool? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting vendor. Occasionally, based on the billing transaction system (principally built for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the devoted clients can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing/domain administration software solution; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP areas to grasp... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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