How cPanel Web Hosting Works

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on the current web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which provides a big amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing absolutely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace offer absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an ordinary person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands around the world will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the current web hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably covered all web hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming No.1: A foolish domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra careful not to remove 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 domain names are very simple to erase on the server, since they all are created 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you getting bewildered? We surely are!

Weakness No.2: The very same mail folder configuration

The email folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly fortify their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too severely.

Negative Aspect No.3: An utter deficiency of domain management GUIs

Do we need to cite the complete deficiency of a modern domain manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois information, protect the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a mammoth problem. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Negative Point Number Four: Multiple login places (min two, max three)

How about the need for an additional login to avail of the invoicing, domain and technical support administration tool? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting service provider. Sometimes, depending on the invoice transaction tool (especially intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting provider is using, the ardent clients can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the billing/domain management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support software), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Drawback No.5: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel departments to get familiar with... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ sections inside the hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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