How Does cPanel Web Hosting Operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on today's web hosting marketplace are provided by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which supplies a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing literally the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace supply exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200,000 "web hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an average bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and websites. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names across the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on today's web hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably answered most web hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra attentive not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you becoming disorientated? We absolutely are!

Weakness No.2: The same email folder structure

The mail folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly enhance their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too gravely.

Negative Side Number Three: A thorough lack of domain management tools

Do we need to cite the sheer shortage of a modern domain name management menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" user interface at all. That's an enormous downside. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Problem Number Four: Multiple user login places (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the need for an additional login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management section? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting distributor. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (particularly designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the eager users can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management tool; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: 120+ website hosting Control Panel menus to memorize... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting service providers:

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