How cPanel Web Hosting Works

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offers on the current web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which generates an immense quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing absolutely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace offer exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a regular guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and online portals. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names around the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present website hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a great strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably covered most web hosting market prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number One: A foolish domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra careful not to erase completely 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 quite easy to erase on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular 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 fabulous cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you becoming confused? We absolutely are!

Drawback Number 2: The same e-mail folder setup

The mail folder configuration on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly fortify their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too seriously.

Weak Point No.3: A complete absence of domain management GUIs

Do we have to bring up the utter deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" interface at all. That's a colossal inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Weak Point Number Four: Numerous user login locations (min two, maximum 3)

What about the need for an extra login to use the billing transaction, domain and tech support management software platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting provider. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction tool (especially built for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting vendor is availing of, the devoted users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration platform; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Disadvantage No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP sections to learn... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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