How Does cPanel Hosting Function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on today's website hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which provides an enormous number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing the very same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace furnish the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...

200,000 "website hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a normal guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names across the world will give you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on today's website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably fulfilled all web hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign Number 1: A moronic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, though, be very attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you becoming bewildered? We categorically are!

Predicament Number 2: The same email folder system

The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly enhance their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too harshly.

Downside No.3: A sheer lack of domain name administration options

Do we need to cite the utter absence of a contemporary domain name administration interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an immense predicament. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Weak Point No.4: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, max three)

How about the demand for an additional login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting firm. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (particularly conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting vendor is using, the ardent users can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management software; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Downside No.5: 120+ Control Panel areas to learn... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting firms:

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