How Does cPanel Hosting Work?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on today's web hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes an enormous number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing strictly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole hosting market supply absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only a normal guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website making processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brands across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present-day hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably covered most 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 domains...

Weak Side Number One: A dumb domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very cautious not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you growing disorientated? We undeniably are!

Drawback Number 2: The very same email folder setup

The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too gravely.

Drawback Number 3: An utter deficiency of domain name administration sections

Do we have to refer to the entire shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's an immense problem. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Weak Side No.4: Many user login places (minimum two, max 3)

What about the demand for an additional login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting vendor. Occasionally, based on the billing transaction system (particularly invented for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting firm is making use of, the ardent clients can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration software; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Disadvantage No.5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel menus to learn... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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