How Does cPanel Hosting Operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the contemporary hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which furnishes an enormous number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering precisely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace provide exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a regular person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands around the world will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps fulfilled most web hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed 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. Observe for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you growing confused? We unquestionably are!

Downside Number 2: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly increase their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to botch things up too gravely.

Shortcoming Number Three: A complete lack of domain name management menus

Do we need to refer to the total deficiency of a contemporary domain name management menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois details, secure the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a colossal weakness. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Drawback Number 4: Multiple user login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for another login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting supplier. At times, depending on the billing transaction system (principally developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting supplier is using, the ardent clients can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing/domain management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Problem Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty Control Panel menus to get to know... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 areas inside the hosting CP. It's a fine idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting corporations:

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