How Does cPanel Hosting Operate?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on the present web hosting marketplace are supplied by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which generates an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying one and the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market provide one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...

200,000 "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an ordinary fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and online portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200k website hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brands worldwide will give you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly met all web hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side No.1: A laughable domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely careful not to delete completely 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 domains are very simple to delete on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

Are you becoming puzzled? We surely are!

Drawback Number Two: The same mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly increase their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too severely.

Negative Sign Number 3: A complete shortage of domain name administration GUIs

Do we have to point out the thorough absence of a contemporary domain management tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a great disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Weak Side No.4: Multiple user login places (min 2, max three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration user interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting corporation. Now and then, depending on the billing transaction system (especially devised for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting firm is making use of, the devoted customers can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management software platform; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage No.5: 120+ website hosting Control Panel sections to become familiar with... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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