How cPanel Hosting Works

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insubstantial business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized business segment, which furnishes a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing absolutely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace offer absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200k "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are only a normal bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names across the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the contemporary web hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly satisfied most website hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number 1: A dumb domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you growing perplexed? We undeniably are!

Negative Point No.2: The very same email folder structure

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 guys strongly enhance their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too irreparably.

Inconvenience No.3: An utter shortage of domain manipulation interfaces

Do we need to point out the sheer shortage of a modern domain name administration user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a considerable disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Predicament Number 4: Numerous login locations (minimum two, max three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to use the billing, domain and technical support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting firm. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (principally invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the enthusiastic clients can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Downside Number Five: More than 120 CP departments to learn... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better grasp them swiftly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting corporations:

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