How Does cPanel Website Hosting Operate?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the present-day hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insignificant marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which provides a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing the very same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting market furnish exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The website hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply an average bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can select? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands across the world will offer you literally the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably fulfilled most hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming Number One: A laughable domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how great cPanel's domain name 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)
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)
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 perplexed? We definitely are!

Negative Aspect Number Two: The same e-mail folder configuration

The mail folder structure on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly strengthen their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too harshly.

Disadvantage No.3: A thorough shortage of domain name manipulation options

Do we have to cite the entire lack of a contemporary domain management user interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a colossal disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Disadvantage Number 4: Numerous login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the need for an additional login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and technical support management interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting supplier. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing system (particularly tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting service provider is making use of, the eager clients can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain management software; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP sections to become acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting vendors:

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