How Does cPanel Web Hosting Operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on today's web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insignificant business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale business segment, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing the very same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market furnish literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a regular guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names worldwide will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably met all web hosting business requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage No.1: A foolish domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call 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 quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder system is:

Are you getting disorientated? We definitely are!

Negative Sign No.2: The very same electronic mail folder system

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too irreparably.

Weak Side Number 3: An utter shortage of domain name manipulation menus

Do we have to refer to the utter absence of a contemporary domain name management menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a big inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Shortcoming Number Four: Many login locations (min 2, max 3)

How about the necessity for another login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting distributor. Now and then, based on the invoice transaction system (particularly built for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting company is making use of, the ardent users can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the billing/domain administration software solution; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel departments to memorize... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting distributors:

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