How cPanel Website Hosting Works

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the present hosting market are generated by a very insignificant business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which supplies a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying exactly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market offer the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

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

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an ordinary fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands in the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the contemporary web hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably met most website hosting business requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very careful not to remove 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 domain names are quite easy to erase on the hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you becoming baffled? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Aspect No.2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The email folder structure on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly increase their faith in God when handling the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too badly.

Shortcoming Number Three: An utter deficiency of domain administration tools

Do we need to refer to the complete lack of a modern domain management user interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois details, secure the Whois information, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a vast problem. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Numerous login places (minimum two, max 3)

How about the need for an additional login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting corporation. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing platform (particularly intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting firm is using, the zealous users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management GUI; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP sections to become familiar with... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better learn them rapidly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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