How cPanel Website Hosting Works

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the contemporary hosting market are provided by a very insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which supplies an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing strictly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace provide one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200,000 "web hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an average person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands in the world will give you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on today's hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably met most web hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number One: A dumb domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, 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, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular 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 erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how good 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 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 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 getting confused? We clearly are!

Inconvenience No.2: The same e-mail folder system

The email folder configuration on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly fortify their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too fatally.

Weak Point Number 3: A sheer deficiency of domain name management tools

Do we need to mention the thorough absence of a modern domain name manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois information, protect the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" interface at all. That's a gigantic disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Shortcoming No.4: Many login locations (min 2, max 3)

What about the need for an extra login to use the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management software? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting supplier. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing transaction system (especially conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the eager users can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management system; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: 120+ website hosting CP areas to become familiar with... fast

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ departments inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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