How cPanel Web Hosting Operates

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel website hosting offers on the present-day web hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which provides a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet offering exactly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting market supply precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200,000 "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brand names in the world will give you precisely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably answered most hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number 1: A moronic domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub 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 erase on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

Are you getting confused? We categorically are!

Weakness Number 2: The same email folder setup

The mail folder structure on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too severely.

Negative Sign Number Three: A complete absence of domain administration GUIs

Do we have to refer to the thorough lack of a modern domain name management platform - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois info, protect the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" section at all. That's an enormous shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Shortcoming No.4: Multiple user login locations (min two, maximum three)

How about the need for another login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management system? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting provider. At times, on the basis of the billing system (particularly developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting supplier is utilizing, the avid customers can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain name management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to get to know... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting suppliers:

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...