How cPanel Website Hosting Works

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the present hosting marketplace are furnished by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which generates a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering precisely the same solutions: mainly 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 offerings on the entire website hosting market offer one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a regular fellow who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can select? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k web hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on today's web hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps fulfilled all website hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how good 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 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)
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 getting bewildered? We undeniably are!

Inconvenience Number Two: The very same mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly increase their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too seriously.

Weakness Number 3: An absolute shortage of domain administration options

Do we have to mention the thorough lack of a contemporary domain name administration menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" interface at all. That's a major predicament. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Weak Point No.4: Many login places (min two, max three)

How about the demand for an additional login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration software? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting distributor. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing system (principally made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the avid clients can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Problem Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel departments to get to know... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them fast... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting vendors:

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