How Does cPanel Hosting Work?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the present web hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite inconsiderable business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which furnishes an immense quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting market offer the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/hosting CP option. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an ordinary bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and websites. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200,000 web hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names across the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on today's website hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps covered all web hosting industry demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign No.1: An imbecilic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to erase fully 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 very easy to erase on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you growing nonplussed? We certainly are!

Drawback Number 2: The same e-mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder structure on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly increase their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to muck things up too fatally.

Disadvantage Number 3: A sheer absence of domain administration user interfaces

Do we need to bring up the utter deficiency of a modern domain administration GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" menu at all. That's a colossal weakness. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Side Number 4: Many login places (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for another login to use the invoicing, domain and technical support administration user interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting service provider. At times, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (principally developed for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting firm is availing of, the eager customers can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management system; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Problem No.5: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel menus to pick up... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a superb idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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