How Does cPanel Hosting Operate?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting marketplace are generated by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which furnishes a great quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering exactly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/hosting CP choice. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

200,000 "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an average person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brands in the world will give you literally the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably covered all web hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number One: A dumb domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

Are you becoming baffled? We categorically are!

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

The mail folder configuration on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly reinforce their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to botch things up too gravely.

Negative Aspect Number Three: An entire deficiency of domain name administration menus

Do we need to cite the total lack of a contemporary domain manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a mammoth predicament. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Weakness No.4: Numerous user login places (min two, max three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing tool (particularly tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the ardent users can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel departments to become acquainted with... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them fast... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting vendors:

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