How cPanel Website Hosting Works

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel Website Hosting offers on the present-day web hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized business segment, which generates a big amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing strictly the same solutions: mainly 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 website hosting marketplace offer exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200k "Website Hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The Website Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a normal person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page making procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands across the world will give you literally the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the current web hosting market is... Period.

The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a great strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel Website Hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably covered most website hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament Number One: An idiotic domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra cautious not to remove completely 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 hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder system is:

Are you getting confused? We certainly are!

Drawback Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder setup

The mail folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Weak Point No.3: A total lack of domain name administration tools

Do we need to point out the utter absence of a modern domain administration GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a colossal shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Inconvenience Number 4: Multiple user login locations (min two, maximum three)

What about the necessity for another login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Website Hosting corporation. Now and then, depending on the invoicing transaction system (especially tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel Website Hosting service provider is utilizing, the avid customers can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain name management software; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: More than 120 web hosting CP areas to learn... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 sections inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting providers:

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