How cPanel Website Hosting Works

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which supplies a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying precisely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace offer the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200k "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are only a normal person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names across the world will give you precisely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the contemporary web hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps satisfied all website hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number One: A laughable domain folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 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 becoming baffled? We definitely are!

Problem No.2: The very same email folder arrangement

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly reinforce their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too fatally.

Negative Aspect Number 3: A complete shortage of domain name manipulation menus

Do we have to mention the sheer lack of a modern domain manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" section at all. That's an enormous predicament. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Downside Number Four: Many login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for another login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting provider. Occasionally, depending on the billing tool (particularly intended for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the enthusiastic clients can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support software), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Drawback No.5: More than one hundred and twenty CP departments to become acquainted with... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them fast... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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