How cPanel Web Hosting Operates

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on today's website hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which generates a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting market supply strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are only a normal person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200k website hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brands around the world will give you precisely the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps answered all website hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point No.1: A dumb domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you getting bewildered? We undoubtedly are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The same e-mail folder configuration

The email folder structure on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too harshly.

Negative Point No.3: An utter lack of domain management sections

Do we need to point out the sheer shortage of a contemporary domain name management interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" tool at all. That's an enormous weakness. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Point Number Four: Numerous login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for another login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting company. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (particularly tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the zealous customers can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration tool; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: 120+ website hosting Control Panel areas to get familiar with... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 sections inside the hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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