How Does cPanel Web Hosting Work?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the present web hosting marketplace are generated by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which provides a big amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing precisely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting market offer literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200,000 "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an average guy who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names around the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the current web hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably answered 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...

Weakness Number 1: A stupid domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

Are you growing perplexed? We unquestionably are!

Inconvenience No.2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irreparably.

Drawback Number 3: An absolute deficiency of domain name management interfaces

Do we need to refer to the thorough lack of a contemporary domain name administration user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" tool at all. That's a considerable downside. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Weak Side No.4: Many user login locations (min two, maximum three)

What about the demand for another login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management GUI? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting service provider. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction platform (particularly built for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting firm is availing of, the zealous customers can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Problem Number 5: 120+ web hosting CP menus to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better learn them swiftly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting providers:

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