How Does cPanel Website Hosting Work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present-day web hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which supplies an immense quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market offer strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

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

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a normal chap who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k website hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names around the world will give you strictly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the current website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably answered most hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem No.1: A ludicrous domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be very attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder system is:

Are you growing puzzled? We categorically are!

Downside Number 2: The same email folder system

The mail folder structure on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly fortify their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too badly.

Weak Side Number 3: A sheer deficiency of domain name administration tools

Do we need to mention the utter shortage of a modern domain name administration tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a huge shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Negative Point No.4: Many user login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management user interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting distributor. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (particularly intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the enthusiastic clients can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration section; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Drawback No.5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel areas to get familiar with... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a great idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better learn them fast... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting service providers:

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