How cPanel Website Hosting Works

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel website hosting offers on the current web hosting marketplace are provided by a very unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which furnishes an enormous number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying exactly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace offer strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a normal chap who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k web hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands worldwide will give you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on today's web hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably met most web hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign Number 1: A dumb domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

Are you becoming confused? We clearly are!

Negative Side Number Two: The same email folder arrangement

The email folder structure on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly strengthen their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too gravely.

Drawback No.3: A thorough absence of domain name manipulation sections

Do we have to mention the sheer shortage of a contemporary domain name management menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a colossal disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Sign No.4: Numerous login places (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and technical support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting firm. Sometimes, based on the billing transaction system (particularly made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting distributor is utilizing, the zealous users can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the billing/domain name management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: 120+ web hosting CP areas to get to know... fast

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the web hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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