How cPanel Website Hosting Operates

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present-day web hosting market are supplied by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which generates an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing precisely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/CP option. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an average bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k website hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands all over the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on today's website hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly met all website hosting industry preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point Number One: A dumb domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder system is:

Are you becoming disorientated? We certainly are!

Weak Point Number 2: The same email folder system

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly increase their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irreparably.

Negative Sign No.3: A complete lack of domain name administration GUIs

Do we have to cite the complete deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois information, secure the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a great disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Weakness Number Four: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the demand for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting distributor. Sometimes, depending on the invoice transaction tool (particularly created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the enthusiastic users can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management platform; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage No.5: 120+ web hosting CP departments to pick up... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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