How cPanel Website Hosting Works

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offers on the current website hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies a vast number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing precisely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting market furnish exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200k "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are only a regular person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k website hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands across the world will offer you literally the same cPanel CP and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the contemporary website hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably met most web hosting industry demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness No.1: A moronic domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra attentive not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous 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 erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

Are you getting confused? We doubtlessly are!

Drawback Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder system

The e-mail folder structure on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly increase their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Weakness No.3: A sheer deficiency of domain management sections

Do we need to cite the total deficiency of a contemporary domain administration interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" tool at all. That's a vast shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Negative Sign Number 4: Numerous user login locations (min 2, max 3)

What about the necessity for another login to access the invoicing, domain and technical support management system? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting firm. At times, based on the invoicing transaction tool (particularly invented for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting distributor is utilizing, the enthusiastic clients can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing/domain name administration software; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Inconvenience Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty Control Panel areas to pick up... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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