How Does cPanel Hosting Work?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offers on the present-day web hosting marketplace are supplied by a very inconsiderable business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which generates a huge number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering exactly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting market supply the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/CP choice. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

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

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only a normal fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 website hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands around the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the present-day website hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably fulfilled all web hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number 1: A moronic domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the web 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

Are you growing nonplussed? We undoubtedly are!

Drawback Number Two: The very same e-mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly fortify their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Negative Sign Number Three: A sheer lack of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we need to mention the thorough shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a huge problem. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Shortcoming Number 4: Numerous login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the demand for another login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting service provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing system (principally devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting corporation is availing of, the ardent users can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain management GUI; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel areas to get acquainted with... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ menus inside the CP. It's a fantastic idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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