How Does cPanel Website Hosting Work?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the current website hosting marketplace are provided by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which supplies an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing one and the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offers on the whole website hosting market furnish absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

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

The web hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a regular fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k website hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names all over the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on today's website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably answered most web hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point Number 1: A moronic domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain 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)
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 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)

Are you becoming baffled? We definitely are!

Weak Point No.2: The very same e-mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too fatally.

Negative Side No.3: An utter shortage of domain name management menus

Do we need to cite the total absence of a contemporary domain manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois information, shield the Whois details, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's an immense drawback. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Inconvenience Number Four: Multiple login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration menu? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting provider. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing tool (principally meant for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the devoted customers can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management platform; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: 120+ hosting Control Panel departments to grasp... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a great idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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