How Does cPanel Hosting Function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present website hosting market are furnished by a quite insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which provides a great amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering the very same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting market offer one and the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200,000 "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are merely a regular guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brands in the world will offer you the very same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the contemporary web hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps met all web hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number One: A moronic domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you becoming puzzled? We undoubtedly are!

Negative Sign No.2: The same mail folder system

The mail folder structure on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly strengthen their faith in God when managing the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too gravely.

Negative Sign Number 3: An utter shortage of domain name management sections

Do we have to mention the absolute deficiency of a modern domain name administration GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" menu at all. That's a major downside. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Negative Side Number Four: Many login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the need for an additional login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting distributor. Sometimes, based on the billing transaction system (particularly devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the enthusiastic customers can end up with two additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain management section; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel areas to get familiar with... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them quickly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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