How Does cPanel Hosting Operate?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small business segment, which supplies an immense quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing precisely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace provide absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are only a normal guy who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can decide upon? 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 ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names in the world will give you literally the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the present web hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly fulfilled all hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign No.1: A foolish domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the server, since 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. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you growing confused? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Aspect Number Two: The same electronic mail folder setup

The e-mail folder structure on the web 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 managing the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to botch things up too fatally.

Downside Number 3: An entire deficiency of domain name management GUIs

Do we need to point out the total lack of a contemporary domain administration GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a gigantic problem. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Many user login places (min 2, max 3)

How about the need for another login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management software platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting firm. At times, on the basis of the billing transaction system (especially meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the earnest clients can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management system; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than 120 hosting Control Panel areas to get familiar with... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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