How Does cPanel Web Hosting Operate?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel hosting offers on today's website hosting market are generated by a very inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized business segment, which generates a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing precisely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the whole web hosting market offer one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200,000 "hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are just an ordinary bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k website hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands all over the world will offer you the very same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the present website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably fulfilled most web hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number One: A moronic domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

Are you getting nonplussed? We unquestionably are!

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

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly reinforce their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too severely.

Problem Number 3: A complete shortage of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we need to bring up the utter deficiency of a modern domain name administration GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an immense problem. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Point No.4: Many login places (minimum two, max three)

How about the necessity for another login to utilize the billing, domain and tech support administration section? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting distributor. Occasionally, based on the billing platform (particularly made for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting supplier is making use of, the avid customers can end up with two extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel menus to get to know... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting distributors:

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