cPanel Web Hosting Unmasked
For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which supplies a huge quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying literally the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace offer one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named
The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an average guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and online portals. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands around the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the present-day website hosting market is... Full stop.
The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple math demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...
The positive and negative points of the cPanel hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps covered all website hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Drawback No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder setup
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located 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. Check for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder system is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)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)
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 getting perplexed? We clearly are!
Predicament Number 2: The very same mail folder arrangement
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly increase their belief in God when managing the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too fatally.
Negative Aspect No.3: An entire deficiency of domain management sections
Do we need to mention the total deficiency of a modern domain manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois details, shield the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a great weakness. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...
Weakness Number 4: Numerous login locations (min 2, maximum 3)
What about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting provider. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (principally made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting corporation is utilizing, the earnest customers can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management menu; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).
Drawback Number 5: More than 120 web hosting CP sections to get acquainted with... promptly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...