How Does cPanel Hosting Work?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based Hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which supplies a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying one and 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 website hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market supply literally the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200,000 "Hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are only an ordinary fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web sites. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names around the world will give you literally the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on today's web hosting market is... Full stop.

The Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel Hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably fulfilled all hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming No.1: An idiotic domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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 erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you growing baffled? We categorically are!

Problem Number 2: The very same mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly reinforce their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too irreparably.

Negative Side Number Three: A total absence of domain manipulation options

Do we need to mention the thorough shortage of a contemporary domain name management platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a colossal drawback. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Predicament No.4: Numerous login places (min two, max three)

How about the necessity for another login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and tech support management platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Hosting supplier. At times, based on the invoicing transaction tool (especially devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Hosting corporation is making use of, the devoted clients can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number 5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel sections to pick up... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better memorize them rapidly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting vendors:

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