How Does cPanel Hosting Function?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offers on the present web hosting marketplace are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-size business niche, which supplies an immense quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying one and the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire hosting marketplace provide literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...

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

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply an average person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brands around the world will give you precisely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on today's web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly fulfilled most web hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament Number One: A moronic domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you becoming puzzled? We absolutely are!

Negative Aspect Number 2: The same mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder structure on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly increase their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too badly.

Negative Aspect Number 3: A sheer deficiency of domain manipulation GUIs

Do we have to bring up the utter lack of a modern domain name administration tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" section at all. That's an immense predicament. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Negative Aspect No.4: Numerous user login locations (min 2, max 3)

What about the necessity for another login to avail of the billing transaction, domain and tech support management software? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting supplier. Now and then, depending on the billing system (principally designed for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting firm is making use of, the zealous users can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty CP departments to become acquainted with... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a great idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them swiftly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...