How Does cPanel Hosting Function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel Hosting offers on today's website hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing precisely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace offer one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

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

The Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an average chap who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 web hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names in the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the current website hosting market is... Period.

The Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based Hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably satisfied all website hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, 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 placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

Are you growing nonplussed? We certainly are!

Weak Point Number Two: The same e-mail folder system

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too severely.

Downside Number Three: An utter lack of domain name management options

Do we need to point out the entire absence of a contemporary domain administration interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" menu at all. That's a gigantic predicament. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Downside No.4: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, max three)

How about the demand for another login to use the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration system? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Hosting firm. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing platform (principally built for cPanel only) the cPanel Hosting service provider is utilizing, the zealous customers can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration tool; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Inconvenience Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP menus to get to know... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a great idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting firms:

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