How Does cPanel Website Hosting Function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the current web hosting market are supplied by a very insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which supplies an enormous number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing exactly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting market offer exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a regular bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can select? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands in the world will give you precisely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on today's website hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably covered all web hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, though, be very careful not to delete entirely 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 domains are very simple to erase on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you growing nonplussed? We absolutely are!

Weak Point Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly reinforce their faith in God when managing the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too fatally.

Negative Sign Number Three: An utter lack of domain management sections

Do we have to bring up the complete shortage of a contemporary domain management platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's an enormous problem. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Predicament No.4: Multiple user login locations (min 2, max 3)

What about the need for another login to make use of the billing, domain name and technical support management menu? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting vendor. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction platform (particularly tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the avid clients can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management section; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel departments to learn... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them promptly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, 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...