How Does cPanel Website Hosting Work?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the current website hosting marketplace are generated by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which furnishes a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing the very same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the whole web hosting market supply literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

200,000 "hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a regular bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k website hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names worldwide will offer you the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the current web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

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

The pros and cons of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably fulfilled most web hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage No.1: An idiotic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very cautious not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the server, since they all are set up 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 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 domain names, please. Decide for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you getting nonplussed? We unquestionably are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The same e-mail folder structure

The email folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly fortify their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too severely.

Weak Side Number Three: An absolute shortage of domain name management options

Do we have to cite the utter shortage of a contemporary domain manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois information, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a big shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Disadvantage Number 4: Many user login locations (minimum 2, max three)

How about the need for an additional login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management software platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting supplier. Occasionally, based on the invoicing tool (particularly designed for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting provider is availing of, the devoted clients can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain name management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Problem No.5: More than a hundred and twenty hosting CP departments to grasp... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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