How Does cPanel Website Hosting Work?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel Website Hosting offerings on today's website hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies a vast number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering literally the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting market provide one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/CP alternative. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200,000 "Website Hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The Website Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a regular person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website creation processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200,000 hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brand names all over the world will offer you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the contemporary website hosting market is... Full stop.

The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

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

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly fulfilled all web hosting market prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament No.1: An idiotic domain folder system

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent 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 hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous 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. Determine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you becoming bewildered? We surely are!

Negative Side No.2: The same e-mail folder system

The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly strengthen their belief in God when managing the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too irretrievably.

Negative Sign Number Three: An entire lack of domain name administration options

Do we have to cite the sheer shortage of a contemporary domain administration menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois info, secure the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a vast disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Inconvenience Number Four: Numerous user login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to access the billing, domain name and tech support management interface? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Website Hosting vendor. Sometimes, based on the invoicing tool (particularly invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Website Hosting firm is making use of, the devoted customers can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: 120+ website hosting Control Panel departments to get familiar with... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's quite 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? Mind that one too...