How Does cPanel Web Hosting Function?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the current website hosting market are furnished by a very insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying absolutely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The web hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a normal bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names around the world will offer you literally the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on today's hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

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

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps fulfilled all web hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra watchful 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous 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. Observe for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

Are you becoming nonplussed? We unquestionably are!

Weak Point Number 2: The very same e-mail folder setup

The email folder configuration on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly increase their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too fatally.

Negative Point Number Three: A total absence of domain name manipulation sections

Do we need to cite the utter deficiency of a modern domain manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" interface at all. That's a mammoth drawback. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Point Number 4: Many login places (min two, max three)

What about the demand for an additional login to avail of the billing, domain and technical support administration software? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting provider. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (especially created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the eager users can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing/domain administration software platform; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: More than 120 web hosting CP departments to get acquainted with... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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