cPanel Hosting Unveiled

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Hosting offerings on the present hosting market are furnished by a very insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which provides an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering exactly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace provide one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "Hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The Hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an average chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k website hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands across the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the contemporary web hosting market is... Full stop.

The Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel Hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably met all website hosting market prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness No.1: A stupid domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you growing disorientated? We definitely are!

Weak Side Number 2: The very same mail folder configuration

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly increase their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too seriously.

Weak Point Number 3: A sheer deficiency of domain name manipulation interfaces

Do we have to refer to the sheer deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" interface at all. That's a mammoth problem. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Numerous login locations (minimum two, max 3)

What about the demand for another login to access the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration GUI? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Hosting distributor. Now and then, on the basis of the billing platform (particularly meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Hosting firm is availing of, the ardent clients can end up with two extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration software solution; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel sections to learn... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting suppliers:

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...