How Does cPanel Hosting Operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the current hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing segment, which furnishes an enormous amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering literally the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting market furnish absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a normal fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brands around the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the current website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably satisfied most web hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point No.1: A stupid domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call 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 web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated 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. Observe for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you getting disorientated? We undeniably are!

Predicament No.2: The very same email folder configuration

The email folder configuration on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly fortify their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irreparably.

Weakness Number 3: A sheer deficiency of domain name management sections

Do we need to cite the thorough lack of a modern domain name manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" menu at all. That's a vast drawback. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Problem No.4: Many login places (minimum two, max 3)

What about the demand for another login to use the billing, domain and technical support administration GUI? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting company. Occasionally, based on the invoicing transaction tool (principally designed for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting provider is using, the ardent customers can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Problem No.5: 120+ website hosting Control Panel sections to learn... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them quickly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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