How cPanel Website Hosting Operates

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the present website hosting market are provided by a very insignificant business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which generates a great amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying the very same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market furnish the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200k "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply an average chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 website hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names all over the world will give you literally the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly met most web hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side Number 1: A laughable domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names 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 popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you growing perplexed? We surely are!

Weak Side No.2: The very same e-mail folder setup

The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly increase their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too gravely.

Downside Number Three: A thorough shortage of domain manipulation interfaces

Do we need to bring up the entire deficiency of a modern domain management interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a huge weakness. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Point Number 4: Multiple login locations (minimum two, max three)

How about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and tech support administration system? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting firm. Now and then, depending on the billing tool (principally devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting provider is using, the zealous clients can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain administration section; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel menus to memorize... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a fine idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them quickly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting suppliers:

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