How Does cPanel Website Hosting Function?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the current website hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which provides a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering strictly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the whole hosting market offer one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200,000 "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only a normal bloke who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k website hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly answered all website hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number One: An idiotic domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very careful not to delete fully 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 domain names are quite simple to delete on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you becoming confused? We surely are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The very same email folder setup

The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly enhance their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too gravely.

Negative Point Number Three: An utter deficiency of domain manipulation sections

Do we need to bring up the total lack of a modern domain name administration interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a mammoth weakness. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Weakness No.4: Many user login places (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the demand for an additional login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting vendor. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (especially intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the zealous clients can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management user interface; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: 120+ hosting Control Panel areas to learn... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a fine idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them swiftly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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