How Does cPanel Web Hosting Operate?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offers on the present web hosting market are generated by a quite unsubstantial business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which furnishes a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing one and the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting market supply absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200,000 "Web Hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The Web Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an ordinary person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web sites. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k website hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands across the world will give you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel Web Hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps covered all web hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number One: An idiotic domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be very careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you becoming baffled? We undeniably are!

Drawback Number Two: The same electronic mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly reinforce their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Downside Number Three: A total lack of domain name management options

Do we need to point out the entire shortage of a modern domain name administration user interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a considerable shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Drawback No.4: Multiple login locations (min 2, max 3)

What about the necessity for another login to make use of the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration system? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Web Hosting vendor. At times, depending on the invoice transaction tool (principally designed for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting distributor is utilizing, the devoted clients can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration software solution; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience Number Five: More than 120 Control Panel areas to pick up... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better memorize them rapidly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting distributors:

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