How Does cPanel Hosting Operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the present-day hosting market are provided by a quite insubstantial business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which supplies an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing exactly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market provide strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands in the world will give you the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably covered most web hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra cautious not to erase completely 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 quite easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

Are you growing bewildered? We positively are!

Downside Number 2: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly increase their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to botch things up too seriously.

Shortcoming No.3: An entire absence of domain name administration options

Do we have to refer to the sheer deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois information, protect the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a considerable drawback. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Downside Number 4: Many user login locations (minimum two, max 3)

How about the necessity for another login to use the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting service provider. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (principally built for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting service provider is making use of, the eager customers can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain name administration system; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number 5: 120+ hosting Control Panel areas to get acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 departments inside the hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting service providers:

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