How cPanel Hosting Works

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which provides an immense quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering literally the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace supply exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200,000 "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just a normal person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k web hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique hosting brands around the world will give you precisely the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on today's website hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably satisfied all web hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number One: A laughable domain folder system

If you have two or more domains, though, be very watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new 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 web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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 attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you growing baffled? We positively are!

Negative Aspect No.2: The same e-mail folder structure

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly increase their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too badly.

Negative Sign Number Three: A sheer lack of domain management interfaces

Do we have to point out the entire lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois information, secure the Whois info, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" tool at all. That's a gigantic disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Disadvantage Number Four: Many user login locations (min two, max three)

How about the need for an additional login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration software platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting firm. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (particularly devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting service provider is availing of, the ardent customers can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management interface; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Weakness No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP areas to grasp... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the CP. It's a wonderful idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting suppliers:

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