How Does cPanel Hosting Operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based Hosting offers on the present-day web hosting market are furnished by a very insubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which generates an enormous quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering exactly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market supply the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/CP alternative. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "Hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a regular bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web pages. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique hosting brands worldwide will offer you absolutely the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the present-day hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel Hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps fulfilled most hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number One: A dumb domain folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely watchful not to delete 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 domains are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, 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 domains, please. Examine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you growing baffled? We unquestionably are!

Downside No.2: The same email folder structure

The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly increase their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too badly.

Weak Point Number 3: A total lack of domain name manipulation menus

Do we have to refer to the utter lack of a contemporary domain management platform - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" tool at all. That's a colossal downside. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Inconvenience Number 4: Numerous login places (min two, maximum 3)

What about the demand for an additional login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration system? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Hosting service provider. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing tool (principally intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Hosting distributor is using, the avid users can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain management menu; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP sections to pick up... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting corporations:

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