How Does cPanel Website Hosting Function?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the present web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which supplies a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing strictly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting market furnish strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

200k "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only a regular guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web sites. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can select? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names in the world will give you the very same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on today's web hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly covered all web hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the server, since they all are created 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you growing disorientated? We definitely are!

Weakness Number 2: The same e-mail folder system

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly increase their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irretrievably.

Weak Point No.3: An absolute lack of domain name manipulation tools

Do we need to cite the absolute absence of a modern domain management platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" section at all. That's an immense drawback. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Inconvenience No.4: Multiple login places (min 2, max 3)

What about the need for another login to access the billing, domain and tech support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting company. Now and then, depending on the invoicing system (especially invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting service provider is making use of, the ardent users can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain name administration menu; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Weak Side No.5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel areas to get to know... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better learn them swiftly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...