How cPanel Hosting Operates

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which provides a vast number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing absolutely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace offer literally the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply an ordinary guy who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and online portals. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 web hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names across the world will give you the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably satisfied all web hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side Number One: An idiotic domain name folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed 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. Check for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain)
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 name)
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 becoming baffled? We absolutely are!

Problem Number 2: The same email folder arrangement

The mail folder configuration on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too badly.

Downside Number 3: A thorough deficiency of domain name management options

Do we have to point out the thorough absence of a modern domain name management GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" menu at all. That's a gigantic drawback. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Numerous user login locations (min two, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to access the billing, domain and technical support management user interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting company. Now and then, depending on the billing transaction system (particularly conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting distributor is using, the earnest clients can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing/domain name administration software solution; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number 5: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel menus to get to know... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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