How cPanel Web Hosting Operates

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes an immense number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing the very same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire hosting marketplace supply precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an average person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different hosting brands in the world will offer you the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the current website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly covered most website hosting industry preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness No.1: An idiotic domain folder system

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra cautious 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 very easy to delete on the hosting server, since they all are situated 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 located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you becoming disorientated? We undeniably are!

Weakness Number Two: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder structure on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly strengthen their belief in God when handling the email folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too badly.

Disadvantage No.3: An absolute absence of domain name management options

Do we have to cite the sheer lack of a modern domain administration tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" interface at all. That's a major disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Sign Number Four: Many user login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the demand for an additional login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration GUI? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting provider. Occasionally, based on the invoicing system (especially tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the zealous clients can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain management software; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side No.5: More than a hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel sections to grasp... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better grasp them briskly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting service providers:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...