How cPanel Website Hosting Works

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which generates a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing exactly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market furnish the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200k "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only a regular chap who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site development processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the current website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

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

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps fulfilled most web hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage No.1: An imbecilic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located 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. Observe for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you growing confused? We definitely are!

Problem Number Two: The same e-mail folder configuration

The email folder configuration on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly increase their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too fatally.

Negative Point Number Three: A complete deficiency of domain management tools

Do we need to point out the entire deficiency of a modern domain management tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois information, protect the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a mammoth predicament. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

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

What about the need for an extra login to use the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration system? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting distributor. Now and then, depending on the invoicing system (particularly made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the eager customers can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: 120+ website hosting CP departments to become familiar with... fast

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ departments inside the CP. It's a marvelous idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better grasp them promptly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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