How cPanel Website Hosting Works

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the current website hosting marketplace are provided by a very unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing segment, which generates an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying the very same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting market supply one and the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200k "website hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply an average fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200,000 website hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names across the world will give you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly met all web hosting industry prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number One: An idiotic domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you becoming puzzled? We categorically are!

Problem No.2: The very same e-mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly increase their faith in God when handling the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too badly.

Negative Aspect No.3: An absolute deficiency of domain name management user interfaces

Do we have to cite the absolute lack of a modern domain administration platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's an enormous predicament. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Shortcoming No.4: Many login locations (minimum two, max three)

What about the necessity for another login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management software? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting corporation. Sometimes, based on the invoice transaction system (particularly built for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting company is using, the eager clients can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP areas to memorize... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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