How cPanel Hosting Operates

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offers on today's website hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-size business niche, which generates a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying strictly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the whole web hosting market offer one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

200k "website hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are only an average person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 web hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands worldwide will offer you precisely the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the present-day website hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably answered all website hosting market requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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 domains, please. Verify for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

Are you becoming confused? We undeniably are!

Negative Side Number 2: The very same email folder setup

The electronic mail folder structure on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly fortify their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too irreparably.

Weakness Number Three: A total shortage of domain name administration menus

Do we have to cite the thorough absence of a modern domain administration interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a gigantic disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Point Number 4: Numerous login places (minimum 2, max three)

How about the need for an extra login to make use of the billing, domain name and tech support management interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting vendor. At times, depending on the billing transaction platform (particularly meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting service provider is availing of, the zealous customers can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration software platform; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Side No.5: More than a hundred and twenty hosting CP areas to get acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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