How cPanel Hosting Works

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on today's web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which provides an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing the very same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the whole web hosting market furnish one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

200k "hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are only a normal fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names around the world will give you literally the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on today's website hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

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

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps satisfied most web hosting business prerequisites. 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...

Drawback No.1: An imbecilic domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated 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 amazing cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you becoming perplexed? We categorically are!

Disadvantage No.2: The very same e-mail folder structure

The mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly enhance their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too severely.

Weakness No.3: A total lack of domain administration tools

Do we have to mention the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain management tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" tool at all. That's a gigantic weakness. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Drawback No.4: Multiple login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the demand for another login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management section? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting vendor. At times, on the basis of the billing tool (especially developed for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting service provider is availing of, the keen clients can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration user interface; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Weakness No.5: More than a hundred and twenty Control Panel departments to get acquainted with... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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