How cPanel Website Hosting Operates

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which supplies a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing strictly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the whole hosting market supply literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200k "web hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a normal fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 website hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brand names all over the world will give you precisely the same cPanel CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the contemporary web hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps covered most web hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point Number 1: An idiotic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you growing disorientated? We absolutely are!

Weak Side Number 2: The same electronic mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too severely.

Negative Point Number 3: An utter absence of domain management menus

Do we have to mention the utter deficiency of a contemporary domain administration user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a considerable downside. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Inconvenience Number 4: Many login locations (minimum 2, max three)

What about the demand for another login to use the billing, domain name and tech support administration user interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting vendor. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing tool (especially intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is utilizing, the devoted customers can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing/domain name management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Problem Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP sections to grasp... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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