How Does cPanel Hosting Operate?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are supplied by a very inconsiderable business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which supplies an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing one and the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an average guy who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k website hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands all over the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel CP and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present website hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly fulfilled most website hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side Number 1: A dumb domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new 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, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known 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 domain names, please. Examine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

Are you becoming baffled? We absolutely are!

Negative Side Number Two: The very same email folder structure

The email folder structure on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly enhance their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too fatally.

Shortcoming No.3: An absolute lack of domain name administration GUIs

Do we have to mention the utter absence of a modern domain administration platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois details, shield the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a mammoth problem. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Downside Number Four: Many login places (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the demand for an additional login to access the billing, domain name and technical support administration software? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting firm. Sometimes, based on the invoice transaction system (principally tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting service provider is availing of, the earnest customers can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel menus to get familiar with... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's quite arrogant 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? Remark that one as well...