How Does cPanel Web Hosting Function?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel website hosting offers on the current hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which generates a huge quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting market supply precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200k "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only an average fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site making processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and online portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web hosting service providers in existence. 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 around the world will give you the very same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably covered most website hosting business requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number One: An imbecilic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

Are you growing confused? We clearly are!

Problem Number Two: The same electronic mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too severely.

Weak Point Number 3: An utter shortage of domain manipulation options

Do we need to refer to the complete lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a vast shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Negative Aspect No.4: Numerous login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to make use of the billing, domain name and technical support administration GUI? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting supplier. At times, based on the billing tool (especially meant for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting supplier is using, the devoted clients can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management tool; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Problem Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel areas to memorize... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them briskly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting vendors:

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