How Does cPanel Website Hosting Work?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel Website Hosting offers on today's web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which generates a vast amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing literally the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting market provide exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "Website Hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The Website Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are only a normal chap who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names all over the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the current web hosting market is... Full stop.

The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel Website Hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably covered all web hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience No.1: A ludicrous domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed 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. Determine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you becoming perplexed? We certainly are!

Weakness Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder system

The email folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly increase their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too harshly.

Downside Number 3: A complete shortage of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we need to refer to the complete deficiency of a modern domain management tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a considerable downside. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Drawback No.4: Numerous user login locations (min 2, max three)

What about the demand for an extra login to make use of the billing, domain and technical support management user interface? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Website Hosting supplier. At times, depending on the invoicing transaction system (especially built for cPanel solely) the cPanel Website Hosting provider is utilizing, the ardent customers can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number 5: 120+ hosting Control Panel sections to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting firms:

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