How Does cPanel Hosting Operate?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel hosting offerings on today's hosting marketplace are provided by a very unsubstantial business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-scale business segment, which furnishes a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing exactly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the entire hosting market offer one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200k "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an average guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 website hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names all over the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel CP and platform, branded differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on today's web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps satisfied most website hosting market prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect No.1: An idiotic domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove 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 is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you getting confused? We categorically are!

Problem Number 2: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly increase their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too badly.

Negative Side Number Three: A sheer absence of domain administration sections

Do we need to mention the absolute shortage of a modern domain administration tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" section at all. That's a great inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Side No.4: Many user login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the need for another login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management software platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting provider. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing tool (especially developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting firm is availing of, the eager clients can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration section; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number Five: 120+ web hosting Control Panel menus to get to know... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting distributors:

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