How cPanel Web Hosting Operates

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the current website hosting market are provided by a quite insubstantial business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which furnishes a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering precisely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace supply one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are just an ordinary bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web pages. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k web hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands all over the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on today's website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably met all website hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number 1: An idiotic domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you becoming confused? We categorically are!

Negative Aspect Number 2: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to mess things up too irretrievably.

Downside No.3: A sheer shortage of domain name administration tools

Do we have to bring up the total absence of a contemporary domain name administration interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a great shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Inconvenience Number 4: Multiple login places (min two, max 3)

How about the necessity for another login to avail of the billing transaction, domain and tech support management interface? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting company. Sometimes, based on the invoicing transaction platform (especially tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the devoted users can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management interface; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP areas to grasp... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to learn each of them. And you'd better memorize them swiftly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting providers:

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...