How cPanel Web Hosting Operates

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which furnishes a big amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering absolutely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace supply one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand 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 "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a normal bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web pages. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k website hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brand names worldwide will give you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the contemporary web hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably fulfilled all website hosting market preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number One: A moronic domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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 delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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 bewildered? We positively are!

Negative Point Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly enhance their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too fatally.

Predicament No.3: A total lack of domain name manipulation menus

Do we need to point out the thorough lack of a contemporary domain name administration platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a colossal weakness. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Aspect No.4: Multiple user login places (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the need for an additional login to use the invoicing, domain name and tech support management tool? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting supplier. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing tool (particularly devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the avid users can end up with two additional login locations (1: the billing/domain management menu; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: 120+ website hosting Control Panel areas to get to know... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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