How Does cPanel Website Hosting Work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-scale business segment, which provides an enormous number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing strictly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200,000 "Website Hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The Website Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are only a normal bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k website hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different hosting brand names in the world will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present web hosting market is... Full stop.

The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly satisfied all website hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side Number 1: A dumb domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, 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 web server, since they all are located 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 located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you getting bewildered? We clearly are!

Negative Point Number Two: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly enhance their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too harshly.

Disadvantage No.3: A sheer shortage of domain name management user interfaces

Do we have to bring up the sheer deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a big drawback. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Predicament Number 4: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to access the invoicing, domain and tech support management system? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Website Hosting company. Now and then, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (especially invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel Website Hosting provider is making use of, the eager users can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Downside Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP departments to memorize... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ menus inside the hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting corporations:

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