How Does cPanel Web Hosting Work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet offering absolutely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the entire website hosting market provide one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200k "Web Hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The Web Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an average bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k website hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names all over the world will give you literally the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel Web Hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly answered most web hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign No.1: A ludicrous domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous 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 delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder setup is:

Are you getting perplexed? We undeniably are!

Weakness Number 2: The very same mail folder structure

The mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly fortify their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too badly.

Shortcoming Number 3: An entire lack of domain manipulation user interfaces

Do we need to point out the sheer shortage of a modern domain name manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois information, protect the Whois info, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" section at all. That's a mammoth problem. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Side Number 4: Many login locations (min 2, max three)

How about the need for an extra login to access the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management user interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Web Hosting company. Sometimes, based on the invoicing transaction system (principally built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting vendor is making use of, the enthusiastic clients can end up with two additional login locations (1: the billing/domain name administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Inconvenience Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to become acquainted with... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...