How Does cPanel Hosting Function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the current web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which generates a vast quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing exactly the same solutions: mostly 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 website hosting marketplace offer one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

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

The web hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are merely an ordinary bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and online portals. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brands in the world will give you the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the current website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a great strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly met all web hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next 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 remove on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

Are you growing baffled? We doubtlessly are!

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

The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly strengthen their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too severely.

Downside Number 3: An absolute deficiency of domain manipulation GUIs

Do we need to bring up the entire absence of a contemporary domain management menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois info, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a colossal predicament. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Problem No.4: Many login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to make use of the invoicing, domain name and tech support management section? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting provider. Sometimes, based on the invoicing tool (particularly devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the eager users can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to get to know... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a great idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting distributors:

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