cPanel Website Hosting Unmasked

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which provides a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing precisely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace offer precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only a regular person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names around the world will give you exactly the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the contemporary hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps fulfilled all website hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming Number 1: A ludicrous domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the hosting 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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)
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 confused? We undoubtedly are!

Drawback No.2: The same email folder system

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly reinforce their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too severely.

Negative Side No.3: An entire deficiency of domain management sections

Do we have to point out the utter lack of a modern domain management user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a great drawback. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Weak Side No.4: Multiple user login places (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for another login to avail of the billing, domain and technical support management software platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting company. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction system (especially built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the devoted customers can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: 120+ Control Panel departments to pick up... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...