How cPanel Hosting Operates

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel website hosting offers on the present web hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing segment, which supplies a vast number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing one and the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting market provide strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200k "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an average fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k website hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands in the world will give you the very same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the current hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

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

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps satisfied most web hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming Number 1: A moronic domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to erase entirely 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, because 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 is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you growing perplexed? We clearly are!

Downside Number 2: The very same e-mail folder structure

The mail folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too badly.

Problem Number Three: A total deficiency of domain administration GUIs

Do we need to mention the entire deficiency of a modern domain name administration menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois info, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" tool at all. That's a gigantic inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Point No.4: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the need for another login to access the billing, domain name and technical support management software platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting provider. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction platform (principally devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting supplier is using, the ardent customers can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration system; 2: the ticket support menu), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Side No.5: 120+ website hosting CP menus to get to know... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ departments inside the CP. It's a marvelous idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them promptly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting distributors:

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