How cPanel Web Hosting Operates

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting market are furnished by a quite insignificant business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which furnishes a big amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering literally the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace supply the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only a normal person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names all over the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on today's web hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably satisfied most web hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign No.1: A dumb domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra attentive not to remove fully 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). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular 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 delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you getting nonplussed? We absolutely are!

Negative Side Number 2: The very same email folder structure

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly reinforce their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too badly.

Disadvantage Number Three: An entire deficiency of domain administration interfaces

Do we need to mention the absolute deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" user interface at all. That's an enormous downside. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Weak Side Number Four: Many login places (min 2, max 3)

How about the demand for an extra login to avail of the billing, domain name and tech support administration GUI? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting company. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing transaction platform (especially designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting service provider is making use of, the eager users can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration interface; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Sign Number Five: More than 120 web hosting CP departments to get to know... fast

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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