How Does cPanel Web Hosting Operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the present web hosting market are provided by a very insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which furnishes an enormous number of different web hosting brands, yet offering one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting market furnish precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200k "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are only a regular fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 web hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brand names around the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably fulfilled most website hosting market prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side Number One: A ludicrous domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

Are you growing perplexed? We categorically are!

Predicament No.2: The same mail folder setup

The email folder structure on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly reinforce their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too gravely.

Negative Sign No.3: A sheer absence of domain name management sections

Do we have to refer to the entire shortage of a contemporary domain name administration interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois information, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" menu at all. That's a huge predicament. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Problem Number Four: Numerous user login places (min 2, max three)

How about the demand for an extra login to utilize the billing, domain name and technical support management GUI? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting service provider. Occasionally, based on the invoice transaction system (especially made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting distributor is using, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: More than 120 website hosting CP areas to become acquainted with... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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