How Does cPanel Website Hosting Work?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offerings on the present web hosting market are generated by a quite inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which supplies a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering strictly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting market offer the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200k "Website Hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The Website Hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a normal person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 website hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel Website Hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly covered most web hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point Number 1: An idiotic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent 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 remove on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you becoming bewildered? We absolutely are!

Weak Side Number Two: The very same e-mail folder configuration

The email folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly fortify their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to botch things up too irretrievably.

Predicament Number 3: A sheer lack of domain manipulation GUIs

Do we have to bring up the total lack of a contemporary domain name management tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois info, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a vast shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Downside Number 4: Multiple login places (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management system? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Website Hosting corporation. At times, depending on the invoice transaction system (principally conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Website Hosting distributor is utilizing, the zealous users can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Point Number 5: More than 120 hosting Control Panel departments to get to know... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them fast... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting service providers:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...