How Does cPanel Web Hosting Work?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on today's web hosting marketplace are generated by a very unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized business segment, which generates a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing one and the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace supply one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an ordinary guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and online portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands around the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably satisfied all web hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side No.1: A stupid domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub 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 server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you getting baffled? We surely are!

Weak Point Number Two: The very same email folder setup

The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly reinforce their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too irreparably.

Negative Aspect No.3: A sheer absence of domain management interfaces

Do we need to refer to the total absence of a modern domain administration menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a great weakness. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Negative Side Number Four: Numerous user login locations (min two, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the billing, domain name and technical support administration user interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting vendor. Occasionally, depending on the billing transaction platform (particularly meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the devoted clients can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management section; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: 120+ web hosting CP menus to get acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting suppliers:

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