How Does cPanel Website Hosting Work?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insignificant marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which supplies an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying strictly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace offer one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an ordinary person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brand names worldwide will offer you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly fulfilled all website hosting market prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number 1: An idiotic domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to 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 delete on the web server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you growing bewildered? We positively are!

Negative Aspect Number Two: The very same email folder system

The mail folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly increase their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to botch things up too irreparably.

Downside Number Three: An entire shortage of domain management interfaces

Do we need to refer to the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" tool at all. That's a colossal inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...

Predicament No.4: Many user login places (minimum 2, max three)

How about the demand for another login to access the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration software platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting service provider. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (principally invented for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting vendor is using, the keen clients can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration tool; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Problem Number 5: 120+ CP menus to get acquainted with... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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