How Does cPanel Website Hosting Work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the present web hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which furnishes a huge amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing literally the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire hosting market supply literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/CP choice. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an average bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names around the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the present web hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly met all website hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, however, be very watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the server, since 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 is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you growing confused? We absolutely are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too fatally.

Shortcoming Number 3: An absolute deficiency of domain name management sections

Do we have to cite the thorough shortage of a modern domain management platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a colossal disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Weak Side Number Four: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, max three)

What about the necessity for another login to avail of the billing, domain name and tech support management software solution? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting vendor. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction tool (principally built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting company is utilizing, the avid users can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration menu; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel sections to memorize... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them swiftly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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