How Does cPanel Hosting Operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting market are generated by a very insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which provides a huge number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing literally the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace provide strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200k "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an average bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands across the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel CP and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the current web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably covered most hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to delete entirely 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). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the web server, since they all are placed 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

Are you growing disorientated? We undoubtedly are!

Shortcoming No.2: The very same electronic mail folder system

The mail folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly reinforce their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too irreparably.

Weak Side Number 3: A thorough absence of domain administration menus

Do we have to refer to the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's an immense problem. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Shortcoming Number Four: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the demand for an extra login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting corporation. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (particularly invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the devoted customers can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel areas to memorize... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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