How Does cPanel Hosting Function?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the current website hosting marketplace are furnished by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which supplies a huge amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing absolutely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offers on the entire website hosting market furnish strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

200k "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are just a regular bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k web hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands across the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

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

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

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably answered all website hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side No.1: A dumb domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, 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, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you growing disorientated? We unquestionably are!

Negative Aspect Number Two: The same email folder structure

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too severely.

Downside Number Three: A sheer deficiency of domain manipulation GUIs

Do we have to point out the thorough absence of a contemporary domain name management interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" section at all. That's an enormous weakness. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Shortcoming No.4: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the need for another login to utilize the invoicing, domain and tech support management software platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting provider. At times, based on the billing system (particularly conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting service provider is availing of, the avid customers can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name management menu; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: More than a hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel sections to grasp... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to learn each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting companies:

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