How cPanel Website Hosting Works

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on today's website hosting market are generated by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which generates a huge quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing literally the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire hosting marketplace offer precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

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

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are only a regular guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k website hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names around the world will offer you the very same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the contemporary web hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly satisfied all website hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side No.1: An idiotic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the web server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known 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 attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

Are you growing bewildered? We categorically are!

Downside Number Two: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder structure on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too irreparably.

Inconvenience Number Three: An entire absence of domain management tools

Do we need to mention the complete shortage of a modern domain manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a great disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Negative Side No.4: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for another login to use the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting company. Now and then, based on the billing transaction system (principally made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting vendor is making use of, the ardent customers can end up with two additional logins (1: the billing/domain management software platform; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Predicament No.5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel areas to pick up... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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