How Does cPanel Hosting Function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the current web hosting marketplace are provided by a very unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which furnishes an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing absolutely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market supply exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

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

The hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a normal fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names around the world will offer you the very same cPanel Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on today's web hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly answered most web hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder system is:

Are you growing confused? We clearly are!

Negative Aspect Number Two: The same email folder setup

The mail folder structure on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly reinforce their faith in God when managing the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too seriously.

Downside No.3: An utter lack of domain name management menus

Do we have to cite the total deficiency of a modern domain management GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" tool at all. That's a great drawback. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Weakness Number Four: Many user login locations (minimum two, max 3)

What about the need for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration menu? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting company. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing transaction system (particularly conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting distributor is utilizing, the earnest customers can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Problem Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel departments to become acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to learn each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting companies:

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