How Does cPanel Web Hosting Operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the current web hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing absolutely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the entire web hosting market offer strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an ordinary person who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands around the world will give you exactly the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably answered most web hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign Number One: A ludicrous domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very attentive not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

Are you growing disorientated? We categorically are!

Downside No.2: The very same mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly fortify their belief in God when handling the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too fatally.

Negative Point No.3: A sheer lack of domain administration interfaces

Do we have to point out the utter absence of a contemporary domain name management tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" tool at all. That's a colossal inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Side Number 4: Many user login locations (min 2, max 3)

How about the need for an additional login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration tool? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting firm. At times, based on the billing tool (particularly intended for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is utilizing, the zealous customers can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing/domain management system; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Side No.5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP sections to become acquainted with... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them quickly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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