How cPanel Hosting Operates

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on today's hosting market are provided by a very insignificant business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which generates a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering one and the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace offer one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only a normal person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands worldwide will offer you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present web hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly satisfied most web hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number One: A laughable domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next 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, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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 name)

Are you getting perplexed? We absolutely are!

Drawback Number 2: The same mail folder setup

The mail folder configuration on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too fatally.

Downside No.3: A total absence of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we need to mention the total deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a vast disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Numerous user login places (min two, maximum three)

What about the demand for an additional login to access the invoicing, domain and tech support management user interface? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting service provider. At times, based on the invoice transaction tool (especially developed for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting distributor is availing of, the earnest customers can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing/domain administration menu; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Side Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP menus to pick up... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them swiftly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting vendors:

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