How Does cPanel Hosting Operate?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting market are provided by a very insignificant business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which provides an enormous amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering strictly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire hosting market furnish literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The website hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an average person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and online portals. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names in the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the contemporary web hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably fulfilled all website hosting market demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming Number 1: A moronic domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very careful not to delete completely 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). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how wonderful 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)
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)
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 perplexed? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Point Number 2: The very same e-mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly increase their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Negative Aspect Number Three: An entire lack of domain administration interfaces

Do we have to refer to the absolute deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" menu at all. That's a vast downside. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

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

What about the demand for another login to access the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration menu? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting firm. At times, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (principally built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting corporation is using, the ardent customers can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration section; 2: the ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel sections to get to know... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them quickly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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