How cPanel Web Hosting Operates

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the present hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which provides an enormous number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing literally the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market offer exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are only an ordinary chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k web hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brand names in the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the contemporary website hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps covered all website hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number One: A foolish domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to erase entirely 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 domain names are quite simple to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you becoming nonplussed? We definitely are!

Problem Number Two: The same electronic mail folder system

The email folder structure on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly enhance their faith in God when managing the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too seriously.

Shortcoming Number Three: An utter shortage of domain management GUIs

Do we have to bring up the absolute lack of a contemporary domain manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a major inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Weak Side No.4: Many login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the demand for an extra login to use the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management section? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting service provider. Sometimes, depending on the invoice transaction tool (principally intended for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting corporation is availing of, the devoted customers can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain management software platform; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Weakness Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP menus to become acquainted with... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them fast... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting service providers:

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