How Does cPanel Web Hosting Work?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are supplied by a very inconsiderable business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which provides an immense quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing strictly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire hosting market supply the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/CP choice. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200,000 "hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are only a regular fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and websites. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the contemporary web hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly fulfilled most web hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point Number 1: A dumb domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are placed 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. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

Are you growing baffled? We undoubtedly are!

Negative Side No.2: The very same email folder configuration

The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly enhance their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too badly.

Disadvantage No.3: A thorough shortage of domain management user interfaces

Do we need to cite the utter lack of a contemporary domain management menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois information, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an immense problem. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Negative Sign Number Four: Many user login locations (min two, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the billing, domain and tech support management software? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting supplier. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (particularly conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting provider is availing of, the ardent customers can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: More than 120 website hosting CP areas to get to know... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting firms:

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