How Does cPanel Hosting Work?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which generates an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying strictly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace furnish strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/Control Panel option. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an average fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names in the world will give you strictly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably met most web hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign Number 1: A laughable domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain)
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 growing disorientated? We positively are!

Downside No.2: The very same email folder configuration

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irretrievably.

Negative Sign No.3: An entire deficiency of domain manipulation tools

Do we have to refer to the utter shortage of a contemporary domain name administration tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois information, protect the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a mammoth weakness. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Drawback Number 4: Numerous user login locations (min two, max three)

How about the need for an additional login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management software solution? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting supplier. Now and then, on the basis of the billing tool (particularly invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the ardent customers can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing/domain name administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: 120+ website hosting Control Panel departments to get to know... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them swiftly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting distributors:

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