How Does cPanel Hosting Function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the current web hosting marketplace are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which furnishes a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market offer literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200k "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a regular guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names across the world will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on today's website hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably answered most website hosting market prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number One: A laughable domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located 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. Examine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you becoming bewildered? We definitely are!

Shortcoming No.2: The same mail folder setup

The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too gravely.

Weakness Number 3: A thorough absence of domain management options

Do we have to refer to the entire deficiency of a modern domain name management interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's an immense disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Disadvantage No.4: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting provider. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (principally developed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the keen clients can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain management system; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel areas to pick up... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a great idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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