cPanel Hosting Unmasked

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based Hosting offerings on the present web hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insignificant marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which furnishes a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying the very same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace offer the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200,000 "Hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary fellow who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k web hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands in the world will give you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present website hosting market is... Period.

The Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based Hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps satisfied most web hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side Number One: A stupid domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to remove completely 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 domains are quite easy to delete on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

Are you becoming nonplussed? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The mail folder structure on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly fortify their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too seriously.

Weakness No.3: A complete shortage of domain management menus

Do we need to point out the total lack of a contemporary domain management tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois details, shield the Whois info, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's an immense disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Multiple user login locations (minimum two, max three)

What about the need for another login to use the invoicing, domain and tech support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Hosting supplier. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction platform (especially meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel Hosting supplier is making use of, the devoted customers can end up with two extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel menus to become familiar with... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better grasp them swiftly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting firms:

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