How Does cPanel Web Hosting Work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Web Hosting offerings on the present web hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insignificant marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which generates a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing the very same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole hosting market furnish absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200,000 "Web Hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The Web Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a normal fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and websites. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brands all over the world will give you literally the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present web hosting market is... Period.

The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel Web Hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps satisfied all web hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage No.1: A dumb domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain 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 domains, please. Determine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

Are you becoming disorientated? We unquestionably are!

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

The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly strengthen their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too gravely.

Inconvenience No.3: A sheer deficiency of domain name management options

Do we have to refer to the total absence of a modern domain manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" tool at all. That's an immense inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

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

How about the need for an extra login to use the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration software? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Web Hosting supplier. Occasionally, based on the invoice transaction system (especially invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel Web Hosting supplier is utilizing, the avid customers can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain name administration interface; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel sections to learn... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to learn each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them briskly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting corporations:

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