How cPanel Hosting Operates

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the present web hosting market are supplied by a very inconsiderable business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which furnishes a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering exactly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting market furnish absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an ordinary chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 website hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brand names around the world will offer you literally the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the contemporary website hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly fulfilled most web hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder system

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the web server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder system is:

Are you getting nonplussed? We undeniably are!

Problem Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The mail folder structure on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly fortify their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too seriously.

Negative Sign Number 3: A total deficiency of domain management GUIs

Do we need to bring up the absolute shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a major disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Disadvantage Number 4: Numerous login locations (min 2, max 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management section? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting distributor. At times, depending on the billing tool (especially invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting corporation is making use of, the eager clients can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain management software; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel areas to memorize... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting suppliers:

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