How Does cPanel Website Hosting Operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the current website hosting market are generated by a very inconsiderable business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which furnishes an enormous number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering absolutely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace provide strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

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

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are just an average bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k web hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brands all over the world will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably fulfilled all hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback No.1: A dumb domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new 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 erase on the hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

Are you becoming confused? We undeniably are!

Negative Sign No.2: The very same mail folder system

The mail folder arrangement on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly increase their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too harshly.

Negative Sign Number Three: A sheer shortage of domain name administration sections

Do we need to cite the absolute absence of a modern domain name manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois information, protect the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a great inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Negative Aspect No.4: Numerous login places (min 2, max 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management user interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting service provider. Occasionally, depending on the billing system (especially meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting provider is using, the eager users can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience Number Five: More than 120 hosting Control Panel departments to pick up... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better memorize them swiftly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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