How cPanel Website Hosting Operates

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insignificant business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing strictly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace supply literally the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...

200k "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a normal guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting option you can select? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brands all over the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps answered most website hosting market prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you becoming confused? We surely are!

Inconvenience Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder structure on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly increase their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too badly.

Negative Point No.3: A sheer shortage of domain manipulation interfaces

Do we need to bring up the sheer lack of a modern domain administration interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a considerable downside. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Disadvantage Number Four: Numerous user login locations (minimum two, max 3)

How about the necessity for another login to access the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration section? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting vendor. Sometimes, based on the billing transaction tool (particularly developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the keen users can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration platform; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel areas to grasp... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them fast... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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