How Does cPanel Website Hosting Function?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on the contemporary hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which generates a great number of different web hosting brands, yet providing exactly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market supply the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an average person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands around the world will give you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the contemporary web hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably covered most hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem No.1: A moronic domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known 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 attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you getting perplexed? We undeniably are!

Shortcoming No.2: The very same email folder setup

The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly enhance their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too irreparably.

Weak Point Number 3: An absolute lack of domain name management interfaces

Do we have to bring up the utter absence of a modern domain management user interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" menu at all. That's an enormous drawback. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Shortcoming Number Four: Numerous user login locations (min two, max three)

How about the need for another login to use the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration tool? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting distributor. At times, depending on the billing transaction platform (especially designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting supplier is availing of, the devoted users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Side No.5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP sections to get to know... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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