How cPanel Website Hosting Works

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insignificant business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes a huge number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering exactly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace provide literally the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a normal fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brands across the world will offer you the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the present-day website hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a big 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 pluses and minuses of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps satisfied most hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

Are you getting confused? We clearly are!

Negative Point No.2: The very same email folder setup

The e-mail folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly increase their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irretrievably.

Predicament Number Three: A thorough lack of domain administration menus

Do we need to mention the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain management interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a considerable shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Problem Number 4: Multiple user login places (min two, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to access the billing transaction, domain and technical support management section? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting firm. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (particularly created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the avid clients can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain administration software platform; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel menus to grasp... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting distributors:

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