How Does cPanel Hosting Operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are generated by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which generates an enormous amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing strictly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the entire web hosting market furnish one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/CP alternative. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

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

The web hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an ordinary chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and online portals. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can select? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the contemporary website hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a big 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 strong and weak points of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably met all web hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

Are you getting confused? We certainly are!

Problem Number Two: The very same e-mail folder system

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too badly.

Shortcoming Number 3: A complete deficiency of domain management interfaces

Do we have to cite the total shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a vast problem. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Drawback No.4: Many user login locations (min 2, max three)

What about the demand for another login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management system? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting vendor. Occasionally, based on the invoice transaction tool (principally intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is availing of, the devoted customers can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing/domain management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: More than 120 web hosting CP departments to get acquainted with... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better learn them rapidly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting providers:

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