How Does cPanel Web Hosting Function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel Web Hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insignificant business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which supplies a big amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing the very same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire hosting market offer strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

200k "Web Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The Web Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a regular fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k web hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names across the world will give you strictly the same cPanel CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the present-day website hosting market is... Period.

The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably answered all website hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side No.1: An imbecilic domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web server, since they all are set up 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 located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you becoming puzzled? We categorically are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The very same mail folder system

The e-mail folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too harshly.

Shortcoming No.3: An entire deficiency of domain name manipulation sections

Do we have to bring up the sheer lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a colossal downside. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Inconvenience No.4: Multiple login places (min two, max 3)

How about the necessity for an additional login to access the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration software? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Web Hosting company. Sometimes, depending on the invoice transaction platform (especially conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel Web Hosting company is using, the zealous clients can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration software platform; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel areas to learn... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting distributors:

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