How Does cPanel Hosting Operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offers on the present-day website hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which supplies an enormous number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying literally the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the whole hosting marketplace supply precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200,000 "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are only a normal fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200k website hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands worldwide will offer you the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the current web hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably answered all web hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament Number One: A laughable domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain 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 domain names, please. Examine for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you getting confused? We unquestionably are!

Negative Point No.2: The very same electronic mail folder system

The mail folder structure on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly enhance their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too badly.

Disadvantage Number Three: A sheer lack of domain management menus

Do we have to refer to the complete deficiency of a modern domain manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a vast problem. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Disadvantage Number Four: Many user login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to make use of the billing, domain name and tech support administration interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting supplier. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing transaction platform (particularly conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting supplier is availing of, the avid users can end up with two extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Problem Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel sections to pick up... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them fast... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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