How cPanel Web Hosting Works

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the contemporary hosting market are supplied by a quite inconsiderable business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which furnishes a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing precisely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace provide one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200,000 "web hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an average chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k web hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names across the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the current web hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably met all web hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the 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 delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how great cPanel's domain 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 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)
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 growing nonplussed? We surely are!

Predicament Number 2: The very same mail folder configuration

The mail folder structure on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly reinforce their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too severely.

Negative Sign Number 3: A sheer shortage of domain name administration interfaces

Do we have to bring up the utter shortage of a modern domain name manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" section at all. That's a major downside. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Negative Side Number 4: Many login places (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for another login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management software? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting vendor. Now and then, depending on the invoicing system (principally built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is utilizing, the zealous clients can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Side No.5: More than 120 CP menus to memorize... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better learn them swiftly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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