cPanel Website Hosting Unmasked
For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present web hosting market are furnished by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes a great amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing absolutely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace furnish precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...
Two hundred thousand "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled
The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a normal guy 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 individual domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200k web hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brands in the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the current web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably fulfilled most website hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Aspect Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder arrangement
If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder setup 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)
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 confused? We undoubtedly are!
Weak Point Number 2: The same e-mail folder setup
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly increase their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too seriously.
Negative Aspect No.3: An utter lack of domain name management menus
Do we have to bring up the sheer deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" menu at all. That's a gigantic problem. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...
Weak Point Number Four: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)
How about the need for an additional login to use the billing transaction, domain and technical support management software platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting supplier. Sometimes, depending on the invoice transaction platform (particularly built for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the zealous users can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain administration system; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).
Predicament Number Five: 120+ website hosting Control Panel areas to get to know... swiftly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them fast... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting service providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...