How Does cPanel Web Hosting Operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the current web hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which furnishes a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire hosting marketplace furnish precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/hosting CP alternative. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200k "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an ordinary person who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200k website hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brand names across the world will give you exactly the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the present web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably covered all hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number One: A dumb domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, though, be very careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

Are you growing disorientated? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Aspect No.2: The same email folder system

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly fortify their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too badly.

Predicament Number 3: An absolute shortage of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we have to point out the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain management user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a gigantic predicament. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Negative Side No.4: Numerous login places (min two, max 3)

What about the demand for another login to use the billing, domain name and tech support administration software? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting provider. Sometimes, depending on the invoice transaction system (principally made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting supplier is utilizing, the zealous customers can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Weakness Number 5: 120+ web hosting CP sections to pick up... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting providers:

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