How Does cPanel Hosting Operate?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based Hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which provides an immense quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing one and the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace furnish precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/CP choice. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "Hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are only an average chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and online portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands around the world will offer you literally the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the present website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The Hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel Hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly fulfilled most web hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming No.1: An idiotic domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely attentive 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the hosting 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 located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you getting confused? We positively are!

Problem No.2: The very same electronic mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly increase their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too badly.

Negative Aspect Number 3: An absolute lack of domain manipulation interfaces

Do we have to cite the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a mammoth inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Point Number Four: Multiple login places (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the demand for another login to access the billing, domain and tech support management user interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Hosting service provider. Occasionally, depending on the billing tool (principally developed for cPanel only) the cPanel Hosting distributor is using, the avid customers can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel menus to get to know... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting companies:

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