How Does cPanel Hosting Function?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the present website hosting market are furnished by a quite insubstantial business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized business segment, which generates a huge number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace supply exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/CP option. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "website hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a regular guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website making processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique hosting brands across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the current website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably met all website hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback No.1: A laughable domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

Are you growing puzzled? We clearly are!

Weakness Number 2: The same e-mail folder structure

The mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to mess things up too harshly.

Downside Number 3: An absolute absence of domain management interfaces

Do we need to bring up the complete shortage of a contemporary domain management interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a major downside. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Weak Point Number 4: Multiple user login places (min 2, max three)

How about the need for an additional login to access the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration software solution? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting firm. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction system (especially tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting service provider is using, the eager clients can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel menus to get to know... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get to know them swiftly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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