How cPanel Website Hosting Operates

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the current website hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies a big number of different web hosting brands, yet offering one and the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire hosting market furnish precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an ordinary chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200,000 website hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brands in the world will give you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on today's web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably met most website hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience No.1: A dumb domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you getting confused? We certainly are!

Negative Point Number 2: The same e-mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly strengthen their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too badly.

Negative Sign Number 3: An absolute lack of domain name management interfaces

Do we need to bring up the entire shortage of a contemporary domain management interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's an immense drawback. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Drawback Number Four: Multiple login places (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the demand for another login to access the invoicing, domain and tech support administration GUI? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting provider. Occasionally, based on the invoice transaction system (especially meant for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting company is utilizing, the earnest clients can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management platform; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to grasp... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting providers:

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