How Does cPanel Website Hosting Function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offerings on today's website hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which supplies an enormous amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering strictly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market supply one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200,000 "Website Hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The Website Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a normal person who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names around the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly fulfilled most web hosting market demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side No.1: An imbecilic domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you getting confused? We definitely are!

Inconvenience No.2: The very same mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to botch things up too seriously.

Problem No.3: An utter deficiency of domain management interfaces

Do we need to bring up the entire absence of a contemporary domain management user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois information, protect the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" tool at all. That's a vast predicament. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Disadvantage Number 4: Many user login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the demand for an additional login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and technical support management software platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Website Hosting firm. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing system (especially created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Website Hosting service provider is making use of, the devoted customers can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Weakness Number 5: 120+ web hosting CP sections to get familiar with... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better grasp them swiftly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting service providers:

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