How cPanel Hosting Operates

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the present-day web hosting market are generated by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which generates a big amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing one and the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200k "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an ordinary fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and websites. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200,000 web hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands all over the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps fulfilled most web hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

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

Are you getting nonplussed? We definitely are!

Weakness No.2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too seriously.

Weakness Number Three: A thorough deficiency of domain name management GUIs

Do we have to bring up the utter lack of a modern domain name manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois info, protect the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a gigantic inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Drawback No.4: Many user login locations (min 2, max 3)

How about the need for another login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and technical support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting distributor. Now and then, based on the billing tool (especially meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting vendor is availing of, the eager clients can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing/domain management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Inconvenience Number Five: 120+ hosting Control Panel areas to get to know... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting vendors:

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