How cPanel Website Hosting Works

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on today's website hosting market are supplied by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which generates a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering absolutely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market provide one and the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200,000 "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an ordinary chap who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web sites. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names around the world will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps fulfilled most website hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side No.1: A dumb domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very careful not to remove entirely 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

Are you becoming puzzled? We clearly are!

Weak Point Number 2: The same mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly reinforce their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too severely.

Predicament No.3: A complete lack of domain name management sections

Do we need to cite the sheer shortage of a modern domain name management platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a gigantic inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Predicament No.4: Numerous user login places (min 2, max 3)

What about the need for an extra login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management section? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting firm. Occasionally, depending on the invoice transaction tool (particularly intended for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the eager clients can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage No.5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel sections to memorize... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the CP. It's a glorious idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting corporations:

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