How cPanel Web Hosting Operates

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the contemporary hosting marketplace are provided by a very insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which generates a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing precisely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting market offer one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/Control Panel option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

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

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose 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 web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and online portals. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands all over the world will offer you the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably met most hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number 1: A laughable domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you getting disorientated? We undoubtedly are!

Weak Point Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder structure

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too fatally.

Weak Side Number Three: A sheer lack of domain name manipulation sections

Do we need to bring up the complete absence of a contemporary domain management tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a vast downside. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Weak Point No.4: Numerous login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the need for an extra login to use the billing, domain name and technical support management tool? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting provider. Occasionally, depending on the billing system (especially invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the devoted customers can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing/domain name management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP areas to get familiar with... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting corporations:

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