How cPanel Website Hosting Operates

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on today's web hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which provides a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing literally the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200k "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a regular bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names all over the world will give you strictly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on today's website hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps satisfied all web hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side No.1: A dumb domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely careful not to erase fully 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 simple to remove on the server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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 name)

Are you becoming bewildered? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Side No.2: The very same email folder configuration

The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly increase their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too badly.

Predicament No.3: An utter deficiency of domain management user interfaces

Do we need to refer to the absolute absence of a contemporary domain manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" section at all. That's a gigantic drawback. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Disadvantage Number 4: Multiple login places (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration software solution? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting vendor. Sometimes, based on the billing system (particularly created for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting distributor is using, the devoted users can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management interface; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP areas to get to know... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ departments inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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