How cPanel Web Hosting Operates

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on the present-day website hosting market are supplied by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which generates an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting market supply exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

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

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are only an ordinary chap who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and online portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present-day website hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably answered all web hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback No.1: A stupid domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very careful not to remove 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 very easy to erase on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain name)

Are you getting baffled? We undeniably are!

Weak Point Number 2: The very same e-mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly increase their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too badly.

Weak Point Number Three: A thorough shortage of domain name management options

Do we need to point out the utter shortage of a modern domain name management tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a great disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Negative Sign Number 4: Numerous login locations (min 2, max 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to use the invoicing, domain name and technical support management interface? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting distributor. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (particularly intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting firm is availing of, the ardent clients can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the billing/domain management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel menus to become acquainted with... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting distributors:

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