cPanel Website Hosting Unmasked
For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel Website Hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting market are generated by a quite insignificant business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which furnishes a vast quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering precisely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace provide strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...
200,000 "Website Hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled
The Website Hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an average chap who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 web hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names across the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present web hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple mathematics reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The pros and cons of the cPanel Website Hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps satisfied most website hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weakness Number One: An idiotic domain name folder system
If you have two or more domains, though, be very watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new 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 web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known 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 attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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)
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 name)
Are you growing perplexed? We categorically are!
Shortcoming Number 2: The same email folder arrangement
The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly increase their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too irretrievably.
Weak Point No.3: An absolute shortage of domain name manipulation user interfaces
Do we have to point out the entire lack of a contemporary domain manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a considerable predicament. An inexcusable one, we want to add...
Problem Number 4: Many user login places (minimum two, max three)
How about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration GUI? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Website Hosting supplier. Sometimes, based on the billing transaction platform (especially built for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting company is making use of, the avid clients can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).
Negative Point Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel areas to learn... swiftly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting providers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...