How Does cPanel Website Hosting Function?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are provided by a quite unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which provides a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying precisely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market supply strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/hosting CP option. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200k "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are merely a normal chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k web hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names all over the world will offer you the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on today's web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably satisfied most hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side Number One: A moronic domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the web hosting server, because 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you growing perplexed? We unquestionably are!

Predicament No.2: The very same e-mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly increase their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to botch things up too irreparably.

Negative Side Number Three: An utter lack of domain management menus

Do we need to refer to the utter lack of a modern domain name management tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois info, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" section at all. That's an enormous downside. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Negative Point No.4: Multiple user login locations (min 2, max three)

How about the demand for an additional login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration menu? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting company. At times, depending on the invoicing tool (particularly devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the devoted clients can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Downside Number Five: 120+ web hosting Control Panel sections to get to know... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...