How Does cPanel Website Hosting Work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which generates a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing exactly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market furnish exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/hosting CP option. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200k "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 web hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique hosting brands all over the world will offer you literally the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on today's web hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps answered all website hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament Number One: A laughable domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very attentive not to erase 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you growing nonplussed? We doubtlessly are!

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

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly enhance their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too fatally.

Downside Number Three: A total lack of domain name manipulation sections

Do we need to bring up the utter deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" interface at all. That's a big downside. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Drawback Number Four: Numerous login places (min two, max three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the invoicing, domain and tech support management software solution? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting service provider. Occasionally, depending on the billing system (principally devised for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting distributor is making use of, the devoted users can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration platform; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Problem No.5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel departments to become familiar with... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better memorize them swiftly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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