How Does cPanel Web Hosting Function?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the present-day web hosting market are generated by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which generates a great number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing exactly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market offer one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

200k "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary fellow who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web pages. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200,000 web hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands around the world will offer you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a great strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps fulfilled all web hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous 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 delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain name)

Are you getting baffled? We undoubtedly are!

Weakness Number 2: The same email folder system

The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too gravely.

Negative Aspect Number 3: An absolute lack of domain administration interfaces

Do we need to refer to the utter lack of a contemporary domain manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a big problem. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Negative Point Number Four: Multiple login locations (min 2, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting vendor. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (especially intended for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the zealous customers can end up with two additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Problem Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to get to know... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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