How cPanel Website Hosting Operates

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which generates a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying absolutely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200,000 "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a regular guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 web hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands across the world will give you strictly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly satisfied most website hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number One: A moronic domain name folder configuration

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

Are you growing puzzled? We positively are!

Negative Sign No.2: The very same mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too seriously.

Negative Sign Number Three: A total shortage of domain administration sections

Do we need to cite the sheer lack of a modern domain manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a huge downside. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Disadvantage No.4: Numerous login locations (minimum two, max 3)

What about the need for another login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management interface? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting company. Now and then, based on the billing transaction tool (particularly designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the avid clients can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel sections to get acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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