How cPanel Web Hosting Works

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the current hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which generates an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing literally the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace supply absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/CP option. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

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

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the present web hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably covered all website hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number One: A stupid domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

Are you growing bewildered? We undeniably are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly increase their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too gravely.

Inconvenience Number 3: An entire deficiency of domain manipulation menus

Do we have to refer to the sheer shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" menu at all. That's a huge inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Disadvantage Number Four: Many user login locations (minimum two, max 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to access the billing, domain name and tech support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting distributor. At times, based on the billing platform (particularly designed for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting service provider is making use of, the ardent clients can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the billing/domain name management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel menus to get to know... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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