How Does cPanel Hosting Work?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the current hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which provides an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing the very same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market provide the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/CP choice. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an average guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k website hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brands in the world will give you strictly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably satisfied most web hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point Number 1: A laughable domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, 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, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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 attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you growing baffled? We unquestionably are!

Drawback No.2: The very same mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly fortify their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too severely.

Negative Sign No.3: An utter deficiency of domain name manipulation options

Do we need to bring up the complete lack of a modern domain name management platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" interface at all. That's a huge inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Side Number 4: Many user login places (min 2, max 3)

How about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration software platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting firm. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (particularly developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the devoted clients can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Side No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel sections to memorize... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting service providers:

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