How Does cPanel Website Hosting Operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the contemporary hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale business segment, which supplies a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing literally the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace provide strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200,000 "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a regular guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website creation processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and online portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any hosting alternative 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 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brand names around the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps met all website hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point Number One: An imbecilic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to 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 simple to erase on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known 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 delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
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 confused? We undeniably are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The very same mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly reinforce their belief in God when managing the email folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too badly.

Shortcoming Number 3: A complete absence of domain name administration menus

Do we have to refer to the sheer shortage of a contemporary domain name management menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois info, protect the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a vast weakness. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Point Number Four: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the demand for another login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration user interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting service provider. Sometimes, based on the invoicing transaction system (especially made for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting supplier is utilizing, the keen customers can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel departments to pick up... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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