How Does cPanel Hosting Function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the current web hosting market are provided by a quite insubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which generates an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying the very same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting market furnish the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply an ordinary guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands across the world will offer you the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the contemporary website hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably answered all hosting business 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...

Weak Side Number One: An imbecilic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra attentive not to delete entirely 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). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder system is:

Are you getting disorientated? We clearly are!

Negative Aspect Number Two: The same e-mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly enhance their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too gravely.

Downside Number Three: An entire deficiency of domain manipulation tools

Do we need to point out the complete lack of a contemporary domain manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a colossal weakness. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Inconvenience Number 4: Many user login locations (min two, max 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration interface? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting distributor. Sometimes, depending on the billing tool (principally invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is utilizing, the avid clients can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number 5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel menus to learn... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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