How Does cPanel Hosting Function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insignificant business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small business segment, which furnishes a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing strictly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace provide literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200,000 "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k website hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands all over the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably satisfied most website hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament No.1: An idiotic domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you growing baffled? We undeniably are!

Downside Number Two: The very same e-mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Shortcoming No.3: An entire lack of domain name management interfaces

Do we need to bring up the sheer absence of a contemporary domain manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's an enormous weakness. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Weak Point No.4: Many user login locations (min two, max three)

How about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management software? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting provider. At times, based on the billing system (especially built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the devoted customers can wind up with two extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: 120+ web hosting CP areas to get to know... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them promptly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...