How cPanel Web Hosting Operates

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the current website hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which furnishes an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying exactly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace furnish strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a regular fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200k website hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names across the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the contemporary hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly met all web hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number One: An imbecilic domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next 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 hosting server, because they all are set up 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. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

Are you growing perplexed? We undoubtedly are!

Problem Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too gravely.

Disadvantage No.3: A total deficiency of domain manipulation user interfaces

Do we need to mention the sheer deficiency of a modern domain name management user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a great problem. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Many login places (minimum 2, max three)

What about the need for an additional login to access the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management software? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting corporation. Occasionally, based on the invoice transaction tool (especially developed for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting company is using, the zealous users can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing/domain name management GUI; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel departments to learn... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a superb idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting companies:

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