How cPanel Web Hosting Works

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel Web Hosting offers on the present website hosting market are provided by a very insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying literally the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting market provide precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "Web Hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The Web Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a normal guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names all over the world will give you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the current website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution

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

Inconvenience Number One: A foolish domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the web server, since 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 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 domains, please. Verify for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

Are you getting baffled? We undeniably are!

Negative Point No.2: The very same mail folder arrangement

The mail folder configuration on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too gravely.

Negative Sign Number 3: A sheer deficiency of domain name administration menus

Do we need to point out the complete shortage of a modern domain administration tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a vast weakness. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Problem Number 4: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, max three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration system? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Web Hosting supplier. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (particularly made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting distributor is using, the enthusiastic users can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name management tool; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP sections to get to know... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them fast... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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